US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Dec. 30 for "Thrusting rails for launch vehicles, and associated systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,249, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Thrusting rails for launch vehicles, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Scott D. Patty (Kent, Wash.), Park O. Cover Jr. (Orting, Wash.), Mathew John Theis (Seattle) and Robert E. McMullen (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to thrusting rails for launch vehicles, and associated systems and methods. Certain embodiments of the thrusting rails can include a first rail housing portion having a cavity and a second rail housing portion having a projection positioned at least partially wit...