ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,583, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Manufacturing sensors using celestial body regolith" was invented by Perla Latorre (Orlando, Fla.), Seetha Raghavan (Orlando, Fla.) and Quentin Fouliard (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include additively manufacturing a sensor structure using a regolith of a celestial body. A sensor can be formed of additively manufactured celestial body regolith. A system for additively manufacturing sensors from celestial body regolith can include a spectrometer configured to receive and analyze regolith to p...