US Patent Issued to IMETALX on April 14 for "Multi-agent spacecraft system for rendezvous and proximity operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,498, issued on April 14, was assigned to IMETALX INC. (Sausalito, Calif.).

"Multi-agent spacecraft system for rendezvous and proximity operations" was invented by Alexander Jacques Fleming (San Francisco), Nehal Gajjar (San Francisco), Michael Anthony Hernandez (Sausalito, Calif.) and Owen Joseph Leather (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise a multi-agent spacecraft system for rendezvous and proximity operations. The spacecraft system comprises a chief spacecraft and a deputy spacecraft. The chief spacecraft maneuvers to the orbit of a Resident Space Object (RSO) and deploys a deputy spacecr...