US Patent Issued to OUTPOST TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Space vehicles with paraglider re-entry, and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,252, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OUTPOST TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Space vehicles with paraglider re-entry, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Jason Dunn (Topanga, Calif.) and Michael Vergalla (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Space vehicles with paraglider re-entry, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative system includes a re-useable space vehicle, a collapsible, deployable and re-stowable re-entry heat shield carried by the space vehicle, and a collapsible, deployable and re-stowable flexible paraglider wing also carried by the space vehicle. T...