ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,819, issued on June 17, was assigned to Astroscale Israel Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Satellite for rendezvous using electric propulsion thrusters" was invented by Arnon Spitzer (Lapid, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Satellite systems and methods to perform rendezvous between a servicer satellite and an on-orbit satellite, and specifically to satellite systems and methods to perform rendezvous between a servicer satellite and an on-orbit client satellite using electric propulsion thrusters. In one aspect, a servicer satellite fires thrusters to reduce a separation distance between the servicer satellite and the client satellite ...