ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,079, issued on April 7, was assigned to TUSAS-TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII A.S. (Ankara, Turkey).

"Satellite system with table and foldable panels produced by additive manufacturing" was invented by Zeynep Ozge Gocmen (Ankara, Turkey), Onur Cakmakci (Ankara, Turkey) and Hasan Soycan (Ankara, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite system has a table on which additive manufacturing is carried out. A plurality of panels are produced by the additive manufacturing method and surround a plurality of satellite elements such as payload, satellite electronic circuits and mechanisms such that they protect the satellite elements fr...