ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,076, issued on April 7, was assigned to Odyssey SpaceWorks Corp. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
"Multi-module laboratory satellites" was invented by Shishir Ravindra Bankapur (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes multi-module satellites designed to autonomously or semi-autonomously perform experiments in a space environment for investigators. Each multi-module satellite includes multiple testing modules each associated with a different investigator. Each testing module includes a testing computer that runs experiments. A main flight computer on the multi-module satellite communicates with the testing computers for each module...