ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,374, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"Radome assembly having an outer layer" was invented by Darya Malkova (Seattle), David Milroy (Kirkland, Wash.) and Samuel Belden (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example of the present disclosure, a radome assembly for use with an antenna assembly is described. The radome assembly may comprise a radome body portion having a first side and a second side, wherein the radome body portion defines a portion of a housing for an antenna assembly. The radome assembly may further comprise an outer layer coupled to the f...