US Patent Issued to Maxar Space on Sept. 30 for "Modular architecture avionics" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,961, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Maxar Space LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Modular architecture avionics" was invented by Harold Mark Bain (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yann Renault (Pacifica, Calif.), Jennifer Lynn Lazbin (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Jonathan Edward Goldsmith (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed computer system for a spacecraft is disclosed. The system has multiple computer nodes, each controlling a different aspect of a mission of the spacecraft. Each node includes a control circuit(s) that controls a set of components, a router processor, and a programmable processor. The programmable processor of each ...