US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology, Sophia Space on July 14 for "Space-based data centers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,564, issued on July 14, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) and Sophia Space Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Space-based data centers" was invented by John R. Brophy (Valencia, Calif.), Leon Alkalai (Studio City, Calif.), Sergio Pellegrino (Pasadena, Calif.), Jonathan Sauder (La Crescenta, Calif.), Timothy P. McElrath (Pasadena, Calif.), Douglas J. Sheldon (Pasadena, Calif.) and Don J. Hunter (LaVerne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In many embodiments of the invention, a space-based data center includes orbital server modules configured to be deployed in space, each module including a communication...