US Patent Issued to Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites on June 9 for "Micro-thrust and micro-impulse application device and method based on light pressure principle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,606, issued on June 9, was assigned to Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai) and Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites (Shanghai).

"Micro-thrust and micro-impulse application device and method based on light pressure principle" was invented by Bin Wang (Shanghai), Hongbin Zhu (Shanghai), Yonghe Zhang (Shanghai), Linlin Wang (Shanghai), Qingyun Mao (Shanghai), Jun Jiang (Shanghai), Shuai Zhi (Shanghai), Pengcheng Wang (Shanghai) and Xinyu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-thrust and micro-impulse application device and method generates micro-thrust to a target by ...