ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,503, issued on July 8, was assigned to REDWIRE SPACE INC. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"System and method for rapidly rotating and transferring molten material and powdered material from a first chamber to a second chamber in a micro-gravity environment" was invented by Robert White (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jan Clawson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Snyder (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises an enclosed centrifuge furnace with a first chamber, a second chamber and a third chamber all of which include and share a tilt axis. The third chamber is concentric with the first chamber and operable at a first temp...