US Patent Issued to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS on April 7 for "On-orbit assembly auxiliary device for space structures" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,080, issued on April 7, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Nanjing, China).

"On-orbit assembly auxiliary device for space structures" was invented by Yiwei Chen (Nanjing, China), Zhongde Shan (Nanjing, China), Congze Fan (Nanjing, China), Jinghua Zheng (Nanjing, China), Wenzhe Song (Nanjing, China) and Jiaxun Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-orbit assembly auxiliary device for space structures includes a plurality of first link rods, one end of the first link rod is hinged with a plurality of second link rods, and an opening assembly for expanding the second link rod is provided...