US Patent Issued to Honeybee Robotics on Sept. 29 for "System and method of ejecting a payload from an extraterrestrial surface" (Colorado, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,039, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Honeybee Robotics LLC (Longmont, Colo.).

"System and method of ejecting a payload from an extraterrestrial surface" was invented by Anchal Jain (Longmont, Colo.), Sean O'Brien (Kent, Wash.), Dara Sabahi (Longmont, Colo.) and Philip Chu (Manvel, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spin release mechanism and a method of launching objects from extraterrestrial sites is disclosed. The mechanism includes a first bracket and a second bracket spaced apart from the first bracket. A guide mechanism is provided operably coupled between the first bracket and second bracket and configured to axially r...