ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,956, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Artificial satellite and artificial satellite system" was invented by Koichi Watanabe (Tokyo), Tsukasa Funane (Tokyo), Makoto Ito (Tokyo), Yosuke Tanabe (Tokyo) and Hisatoshi Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial satellite and artificial satellite system has power transmission and reception efficiency and includes an expandable solar panel that generates power, expandable power transmitting antennas, and expandable beam members to connect the solar panel and the power transmitting antennas to each other. The beam members are expanded from being prov...