The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2020
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation;
James Garret Nicholson, Broadlands, VA (US);
Daniel Carl Treachler, Leesburg, VA (US);
Oliver Benjamin Ortiz, Beltsville, MD (US);
James Dulin Reavill, Irving, TX (US);
Benjamin Michael Hekman, Percellville, VA (US);
Robert Bryan Sullivan, Chantilly, VA (US);
Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser, Reston, VA (US);
Mark Lieberbaum, Arlington, VA (US);
Michael Joseph Glogowski, Leesburg, VA (US);
William A. Llorens, Herndon, VA (US);
Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow, Great Falls, VA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
Spacecraft servicing devices or pods and related methods may be configured to be deployed from a carrier spacecraft and include at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft. The spacecraft servicing devices may be configured to be transported from an initial orbit to another orbit after the spacecraft servicing device is deployed from the carrier spacecraft.