US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems on May 13 for "Spacecraft thermal systems and methods" (Colorado, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,989, issued on May 13, was assigned to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Spacecraft thermal systems and methods" was invented by Gordon Wu (Melbourne, Fla.), Derek Chan (Boulder, Colo.), Kevin Eugene Weed (Boulder, Colo.), Bryce Moore (Broomfield, Colo.) and Kevin Hoopes (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing thermal systems having one or more radiators that each incorporate one or more heat pipe matrices are provided. Each heat pipe matrix includes at least one spreader heat pipe element and a plurality of lateral heat pipe elements. The lateral heat pipe elements c...