MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001503 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, on Jan. 6, for 'a capillary-fed evaporative micro-thruster apparatus and method for generating thrust in a satellite.'

Inventor(s) include Susmita Dash; Akshay Sharma; Pratikash Prakash Panda; and Amrit Ambirajan.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to micro-propulsion systems, and more particularly relate to a capillary-fed evaporative micro-thruster apparatus and method for generating thrust in a satell...