US Patent Issued to Beyond Gravity Sweden on April 22 for "Separable clamped HDRM interface for managing torsion loads" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,898, issued on April 22, was assigned to Beyond Gravity Sweden AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Separable clamped HDRM interface for managing torsion loads" was invented by Magnus Thenander (Linkoping, Sweden), Niklas Journath (Norrkoping, Sweden), Kjell Pettersson (Linkoping, Sweden) and Oskar Bjorfeldt (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hold Down Release Mechanism, HDRM, interface for attachment of a spacecraft to an adjacent structure of a launch vehicle or another spacecraft, wherein the HDRM interface is configured for forming part of a single or multi-point releasable attachment of the spacecraft to said adjacent struc...