US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Aug. 5 for "Heat fins for heat dissipation of rocket components" (Alabama, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,009, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Heat fins for heat dissipation of rocket components" was invented by David Harper (Huntsville, Ala.), Jeramy Kimball (Seattle), Logan Sailer (Seattle) and Curtis Wen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rocket components having internal heat fins are described herein. The disclosed components have internal heat fins that mitigate buckling and uneven force application by adding thermal capacity to the component without adding component stiffness. This reduces a thermal force fight (i.e., tension versus compression between cold and hot areas, re...