US Patent Issued to UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE on Aug. 4 for "Load test apparatus with integrated thermal conditioning" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,032, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Load test apparatus with integrated thermal conditioning" was invented by Christopher Sheridan Kelly (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for conducting thermal condition testing on a test object or objects where a first test fixture in contact with a test object has a first temperature and a second test fixture in contact with the test object has a second temperature. The test object or objects may also be secured to the text fixtures which permits a force or load placed on one or both test fixtures to be app...