ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,688, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Varda Space Industries Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Gravity-independent crystallization system" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Anderson (San Pedro, Calif.), Haley Coddington Bauser (Los Angeles), Larry Robin Chan (Torrance, Calif.), Eric Douglas Miller (Lomita, Calif.), Ami Sanat Bhavsar (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Kenneth Hoyt Condon (Long Beach, Calif.), Jordan Michael Croom (Los Angeles), Andrew Steven McCalip (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Adrian Radocea (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Payload systems for processing chemical substances under various gravity levels, such as hyp...