US Patent Issued to SolAero Technologies on March 11 for "Space vehicles including multijunction metamorphic solar cells" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,667, issued on March 11, was assigned to SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Space vehicles including multijunction metamorphic solar cells" was invented by Daniel Derkacs (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of space vehicles forming a satellite constellation, each space vehicle comprising a housing having a first side and an opposite side, and an axis; a first elongated, rectangular sheet including an array of transducer devices including multijunction solar cells mounted on, and extending from a surface of the first side of the housing, and a second elongated rectangular sheet including an ar...