US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Sept. 9 for "Self-adjusting gap system for space charging mitigation and monitoring" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,954, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Self-adjusting gap system for space charging mitigation and monitoring" was invented by Konrad Bergandy (Greenbelt, Md.), Claef Hakun (Greenbelt, Md.), Martin Matson (Greenbelt, Md.), Elliott Martin (Greenbelt, Md.) and Robert Meloy (Lanham, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-adjusting gap system, including: a flexure connected to a first electrically isolated element, wherein the flexure allows motion or has a flexible element, and has an electrically conductive element; a contact fixture connected to a...