US Patent Issued to STEAMJET SPACE SYSTEMS on June 3 for "Electrothermal subassembly of steam thruster for nanosatellites" (British, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,340, issued on June 3, was assigned to STEAMJET SPACE SYSTEMS LTD. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Electrothermal subassembly of steam thruster for nanosatellites" was invented by Vladimir V. Fedorov (Novosibirsk, Russia) and Marco Pavan (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrothermal subassembly of a steam thruster for nanosatellites. The subassembly has an inlet port for the supply of the working mass, heat exchangers with containing ducts, at least one heating element, a supersonic micro-nozzle, and a plurality of rods forming a truss structure."

The patent was filed on Jan. 24, 2024, under Application No. ...