US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Dec. 23 for "Gas distributor for electric propulsion systems" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,006, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Gas distributor for electric propulsion systems" was invented by Jacob B. Simmonds (Pasadena, Calif.), Robert B. Lobbia (Pasadena, Calif.), Richard R. Hofer (Monrovia, Calif.), Dan M. Goebel (Tarzana, Calif.) and Leanne Su (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a low cost and simple to manufacture gas distributor for use as an anode in an electric propulsion (EP) system are presented. According to one aspect, the gas distributor is a single integrated structure made of a single material, including graphite...