US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Feb. 17 for "Spacecraft panel and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,552, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Spacecraft panel and method" was invented by Richard W. Aston (Brea, Calif.), Nicole Diane Schoenborn (El Segundo, Calif.), Nicole Marie Jain (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Christopher David Joe (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacecraft panel includes a first skin, a second skin spaced apart from the first skin, and a first truss structure connecting the first skin to the second skin. The first truss structure includes a plurality of truss members, and each truss member is integral with the first skin and the second skin, such that the first...