ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,624, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Maxar Space LLC (Westminster, Colo.).
"Thermally efficient bus housing" was invented by David Georgis (Boulder, Colo.), Frederick Oey (San Carlos, Calif.) and Robert Helmer (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orbital satellite has a bus formed of a bus module and a payload module. Both the bus module and the payload modules may include a pair of panels integrally formed at an angle of for example 90deg with respect to each other. Components and electronics supporting the satellite systems may be mounted on the panels of the bus and payload modules. Heat generated by the comp...