US Patent Issued to Lanteris Space on Feb. 24 for "Sealing of multi-layer insulation blankets for spacecraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,263, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lanteris Space LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Sealing of multi-layer insulation blankets for spacecraft" was invented by Richard B. Warnock (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeanine M.W. Olson (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric V. Werner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To facilitate on-orbit servicing, such as for a refueling operation, techniques are presented for a servicing satellite to cut through the multi-layer insulation blanket of a client satellite to provide access to the client satellite without releasing unacceptable quantities of foreign object debris from the multi-layer insulati...