US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on May 5 for "Systems and methods for combined control moment gyroscope and thruster control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,554, issued on May 5, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for combined control moment gyroscope and thruster control" was invented by Christopher J. Heiberg (Sunset Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed provide for attitude control of a body, the body including a plurality of thrusters and a plurality of gimballed rotors. Operations performed include: receiving a command vector representing a desired torque on the body, generating a Jacobian matrix that, when applied to a combined gimbal rate and thrust command vector, generates the command vector, generating co...