US Patent Issued to Maxar Space on Oct. 28 for "Modular solar array" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,372, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Maxar Space LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Modular solar array" was invented by Harry A. Yates (Mountain View, Calif.), Tom Hsieh (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Bieniek (Reno, Nev.), Ben Kwong (San Mateo, Calif.), Robert Szombathy (Rocklin, Calif.), Martinus Meerman (San Martin, Calif.), Frederick Oey (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Amnuaypayoat (San Francisco), Alan J. Szeto (San Jose, Calif.) and Richard B. Warnock (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar array structure for a spacecraft is based on a modular approach, allowing for arrays to be designed, and designed to be modified, and...