US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Basalt fiber reinforced syntactic thermal protection system" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,708, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Basalt fiber reinforced syntactic thermal protection system" was invented by Adam Kopysc (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are used to fabricate portions of a thermal protection systems (TPS) for placement on or adjacent to a tank or other part of a structure, such as a spacecraft. The TPS may comprise syntactic foam as a spray-on foam insulation (SOFI)), which may be sprayed onto a surface. Alternatively, the TPS may comprise syntactic foam that is applied as preformed panels that are adhered or mechanically ...