US Patent Issued to AST Advanced Space Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Piezo-resistive pressure cell with reduced radiation induced drifts under high-energy radiation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,817, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AST Advanced Space Technologies GmbH (Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany).

"Piezo-resistive pressure cell with reduced radiation induced drifts under high-energy radiation" was invented by Hans-Peter Harmann (Hambergen, Germany), Heiko Dartsch (Bremen, Germany) and Kyra Bekaan (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to relates to a pressure cell configured for working according to the piezo-resistive principle and for use under high-energy radiation, particularly for use in space, i.e. to work under cosmic radiation. In order to reduce radiation drift effects during ope...