US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Dec. 2 for "Horizontal integration tooling for launch vehicles, and associated systems and methods" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,048, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Horizontal integration tooling for launch vehicles, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Derek Johnson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A representative system includes an alignment tool for aligning attachment interfaces of horizontally-oriented launch vehicle portions. The tool can include a receiver assembly for connecting to a first launch vehicle portion and an actuation assembly for connecting to a second launch vehicle portion. When a first connecting element of the receiver assembly is engaged with a second connectin...