US Patent Issued to Harbin Institute of Technology on Aug. 12 for "System and method for capturing space target" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,562, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China).

"System and method for capturing space target" was invented by Jinsheng Guo (Harbin, China), Fan Wu (Harbin, China), Shi Qiu (Harbin, China), Jian Chen (Harbin, China), Cheng Wei (Harbin, China) and Hongxu Wang (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and a method for capturing a space target. The system includes a plurality of capturing devices, a delivery device, a launching device, and a deceleration and recovery device, each of the plurality of capturing devices is configured to be launched into a target orbit to ca...