US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on May 5 for "Tram systems for space vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,558, issued on May 5, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Tram systems for space vehicles" was invented by Donald Wayne Denham (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tram systems for space vehicles are movable thereon. When the space vehicle is a nested ring cell, for example, the structural ring portion of the design may be mostly or completely passive and contain conducting parts, such as electrical steel. The moving trams may use field coils instead of magnets to generate the magnetic flux to propel the tram. Additional coils on the tram may steer the magnetic flux to generate the forward or rev...