US Patent Issued to Lunar Resources on June 23 for "Method and system for vacuum vapor deposition of functional materials in space" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,727, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lunar Resources Inc. (Houston).

"Method and system for vacuum vapor deposition of functional materials in space" was invented by Alex Ignatiev (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for depositing a deposition material on a substrate in a space environment may include a substrate support structure on a surface of a planetary body in the space environment, a depositor for the deposition material, an energy source associated with the depositor to excite the deposition material to form a vapor of the deposition, and a moveable elongate member associated with the depositor, to ...