US Patent Issued to Care Weather Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for satellite thermal management" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,197, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Care Weather Technologies Inc. (Provo, Utah).

"Systems and methods for satellite thermal management" was invented by Michael Patrick Walton (Provo, Utah) and Alex Roman Laraway (Vineyard, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a thermal management system for a satellite. The system may include a plurality of photovoltaic cells configured to generate electrical power, an active array antenna including transmit-receive (T/R) modules with power amplifiers, a thermal core thermally coupled to the photovoltaic cells and antenna, and a phase-change material (PCM) element di...