US Patent Issued to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY on June 9 for "Outer space-based vehicle with a payload steering arrangement" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,590, issued on June 9, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Outer space-based vehicle with a payload steering arrangement" was invented by Gordon Chun Kong Wu (Melbourne, Fla.), Robert Riley (Melbourne, Fla.), Alan W. Mast (Melbourne Beach, Fla.) and Brinnan C. Riley (West Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer space-based vehicle may include a spacecraft bus, a payload having a payload center of mass, and a gimbal coupled between the spacecraft bus and the payload. The gimbal may have a gimbal axis aligned with the payload center of mass, and is configured to selectively rotate the payload about t...