US Patent Issued to University of Tennessee Research Foundation on Jan. 13 for "Micro scalable thrusters for adaptive mission profiles in space-MuSTAMPS" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,200, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Micro scalable thrusters for adaptive mission profiles in space-MuSTAMPS" was invented by Jose Lino Vasconcelos da Costa (Tullahoma, Tenn.), Trevor Michael Moeller (Manchester, Tenn.), Justin Michael Jones (Cleveland, Tenn.), Brian Keith Canfield (Tullahoma, Tenn.), Alexander Yuryevich Terekhov (Hermitage, Tenn.) and Joshua Harrison Howell (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more electrospray emitters form an electrospray thruster, suitable for generating thrust for maneuvering and/or moving a structure to which...