US Patent Issued to THE AEROSPACE on Dec. 9 for "Independent non-solar powered exploratory craft for orbital rendezvous and positioning framework" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,017, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Independent non-solar powered exploratory craft for orbital rendezvous and positioning framework" was invented by Eric Joseph Nemanick (Santa Monica, Calif.), Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, Calif.), Andrea G. Hsu (El Segundo, Calif.) and John H. Schilling (Lancaster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isotope power source configured to act as a vehicle includes a plurality of radioisotope power sources encased around one or more elements therein to form a tile-shaped spacecraft."

The patent was filed on May 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/320,406....