US Patent Issued to World View Enterprises on Aug. 25 for "Near-space operation systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,589, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to World View Enterprises Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Near-space operation systems" was invented by Taber K. MacCallum (Tucson, Ariz.), Jacob H. Dang (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Robert Alan Eustace (Menlo Park, Calif.), John Zaniel Maccagnano (Tucson, Ariz.), Julian R. Nott (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Sebastian A. Padilla (Tucson, Ariz.), Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan (Hyderabad, India), John Straus (Tucson, Ariz.), Jared Leidich (Golden, Colo.) and Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut (Deland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above...