US Patent Issued to Tesat-Spacecom on July 14 for "Mechanical switching unit, system and satellite" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,562, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Backnang, Germany).

"Mechanical switching unit, system and satellite" was invented by Heiner Handel (Backnang, Germany), Bastian Hellweg (Backnang, Germany), Daniel Reicherter (Backnang, Germany), Erik Rosen (Backnang, Germany) and Andreas Wacker (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical switching unit for selectively moving a functional component from a first position to a second position has an input element, an output element, a first holding point and a second holding point. The input element is set in motion by a drive. The output element ...