US Patent Issued to THALES on July 28 for "Space module designed to be deployed in space to form a space platform and associated space platform" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,026, issued on July 28, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Space module designed to be deployed in space to form a space platform and associated space platform" was invented by Gautier Durand (Cannes la Bocca, France) and Yves Durand (Cannes la Bocca, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space module designed to be deployed in space to form a space platform, the space module being formed of a predetermined number of elements all having the same flat shape in an extension plane of the corresponding element, each element being of a predetermined type, with at least one element forming a payload."

The patent was filed on June...