ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,622, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Spacecraft servicing devices and related assemblies, systems, and methods" was invented by James Garret Nicholson (Broadlands, Va.), Daniel Carl Treachler (Leesburg, Va.), Oliver Benjamin Ortiz (Beltsville, Md.), James Dulin Reavill (Irving, Texas), Benjamin Michael Hekman (Percellville, Va.), Robert Bryan Sullivan (Chantilly, Va.), Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser (Reston, Va.), Mark Lieberbaum (Arlington, Va.), Michael Joseph Glogowski (Leesburg, Va.), William A. Llorens (Herndon, Va.), Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow (Great Falls, Va.) and Peter Michael Cipollo (Arlington, Va.).

According to the...