US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for tank wall thermal insulation" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,815, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Methods and systems for tank wall thermal insulation" was invented by Rachel Anne Clark (Seattle), Mark Francis Wagner (Glendale, Calif.), Artem Alexander Dyakonov (Seattle), Arash Ghabchi (Bothell, Wash.), Gary D. Grayson (Maple Valley, Wash.) and Adam Keith Norman (Maple Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and materials provide for thermal insulation for tanks, such as tanks for use in space flight missions. Microporous glass blocks may be used as an insulative bridge between spray-on foam insulation and a stainless steel ...