ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,244, issued on April 29, was assigned to Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Satellite including crossover power processing units for electric thrusters" was invented by Brian A. Koch (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacecraft propulsion system including a first thruster system including a first power processing unit connected to a first thruster string via a crossover switching unit and connected to a second thruster string via the crossover switching unit. A second thruster system including a second power processing unit connected to the second thruster string via the crossover switching unit and to t...