US Patent Issued to Space Engineering University on June 24 for "Thrust-quantitatively-controllable and self-neutralizable kaufman ion thruster and use method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,805, issued on June 24, was assigned to Space Engineering University (Beijing).

"Thrust-quantitatively-controllable and self-neutralizable kaufman ion thruster and use method thereof" was invented by Siyin Zhou (Beijing), Wansheng Nie (Beijing), Yunfan Yang (Beijing), Zitong Wang (Beijing), Xinhui Lin (Beijing), Danyang Li (Beijing) and Peng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of space electric propulsion of spacecrafts, and discloses a thrust-quantitatively-controllable and self-neutralizable Kaufman ion thruster and a use method thereof. The Kaufman ion thruster include...