US Patent Issued to Portal Space Systems on Jan. 13 for "Systems, devices, and methods for spacecraft propulsion with a heat exchanger" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,784, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Portal Space Systems Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for spacecraft propulsion with a heat exchanger" was invented by Jeffery T. Thornburg (Bothell, Wash.) and Prashaanth Ravindran (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for spacecraft propulsion. In an embodiment, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising a heat exchanger body defining a plurality of propellant channels configured to contain a propellant, a central cavity configured to contain a working fluid and fluidically connected t...