US Patent Issued to Hubble Network on March 3 for "Satellites and satellite stacks for launch" (Washington, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,337, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hubble Network Inc. (Seattle).

"Satellites and satellite stacks for launch" was invented by Louis L. LeGrand III (Seattle), David Paauwe (Petaluma, Calif.), John S.L. Kim (Seattle) and Ben Juda Wild (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite stack includes satellites arranged in a stack, where each satellite in the stack has a planar portion with an associated support structure and a subsystems housing containing satellite subsystems extending along an edge of the planar portion. For each satellite, a height of the subsystems housing is greater than a combined height of the pla...