US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Sept. 29 for "Space vehicle intrusion detection system (IDS)" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,041, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Space vehicle intrusion detection system (IDS)" was invented by Michael J. Worden (Aurora, Colo.), Steven J. Austin Sr. (Aubrey, Texas) and Damian P. Mcloughlin (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for space vehicle security are provided. A space vehicle can include a navigational controller configured to determine a mode of the space vehicle, a power supply configured to provide power to components of the space vehicle, a transceiver configured to determine whether a communications channel to a gr...