US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Oct. 7 for "Additively manufactured solar panel assemblies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,299, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Additively manufactured solar panel assemblies" was invented by John L. Gibb (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ivan Audon Lucatero Sanchez (Soquel, Calif.), Adan Alberto Giron (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott T. Santo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various enhancements for solar panels and associated solar arrays. In one example, a method of manufacturing includes forming, by an additive manufacturing process, a stackup of half-panels comprising connected pairs of the half-panels each having an integrated construction comprising a webbi...