ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,772, issued on July 29, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"User terminal housing" was invented by Tad A. Kilbury (Long Beach, Calif.), Jackson Shaffner (El Segundo, Calif.) and David Milroy (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a housing for an antenna assembly is described. The housing may include a lower enclosure configured to be coupled to an upper structure to define an internal region. The housing may also include an internal cover configured to be coupled to the lower enclosure to create a first chamber and a second chamber within the internal region."

The pate...