US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Wrapping made of fibre composite plastic for a space travel vessel jacket" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,086, issued on Dec. 16.

"Wrapping made of fibre composite plastic for a space travel vessel jacket" was invented by Dieter Grebner (Linz, Austria) and Philipp Heher (Mank, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber composite plastic overwrap for a spacecraft container shell (8), in particular in connection with spacecraft containers, provides burnup as complete as possible on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere despite good strength properties and simple production with the aid of conventional fiber winding processes. The overwrap comprises at least one winding tape (1) of a plastic matrix (2) in which at least two tape layers (...