ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,794, issued on May 12, was assigned to Katalyst Space Technologies LLC (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

"Attachment systems for augmenting satellites" was invented by Erik Olaf Harang (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Ghonhee Lee (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Nicholas Peter Liapis (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jason Herman (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Dawson Pursell (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Hunter Robertson (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Andrew Sabovik (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retrofittable satellite systems for an in-orbit host satellite comprising an enhancement module for adding a capability to the in-orbit host satellite, modifying the function of the in-orbit host satellit...