ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,104, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).
"Spacecraft antenna restraint system" was invented by Garrett P. Simard (Seattle), Stefano A. Bauk (Redmond, Wash.), Robert D. Giglio (Seattle), Andrew C. Thompson (Hebron, Conn.) and Joshua A. Dunford (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacecraft system may include a first spacecraft having a chassis and a first antenna moveably mounted to the chassis, and a second spacecraft having a chassis, wherein the second spacecraft is adjacent the first spacecraft during launch to define a stacked configuration, and a passive restrain...