US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems on June 3 for "Systems and methods for limiting rotation of a supported object" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,466, issued on June 3, was assigned to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for limiting rotation of a supported object" was invented by Federick Renken (Boulder, Colo.), Miroslaw A. Ostaszewski (Louisville, Colo.), Grady Egan (Frederick, Colo.) and Lathan Collins (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for limiting rotation of a supported object about an axis of rotation are provided. A system as disclosed includes a stop system that engages at a selected amount of rotation about an axis of rotation to provide a balanced force countering further rotation. The stop syste...