| PatNum | IssueDate | Assignee | AssigneeLoc | Patent Title | Abstract |
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| 12746991 | 9/29/2026 | NASA | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Remotely operated vehicle for environmental research | A remotely controlled vehicle includes a vehicle propulsion system having a receiver for receiving speed and direction commands, speed control circuitry coupled to the receiver for converting the speed and direction commands to motor drive signals, a plurality of drive wheel assemblies driven by the motor drive signals, and a first power source coupled to the receiver and speed control circuitry, a sensor and data collection system having one or more environmental sensors, a memory for storing data from the one or more environmental sensors, a microcontroller for controlling the one or more en... |
| 12747015 | 9/29/2026 | World View Enterprises | Tucson, AZ | High altitude balloon systems and methods | Described herein are features for a high altitude lighter-than-air (LTA) system and associated methods. A zero-pressure balloon (ZPB) is attached in tandem with one or more air super-pressure balloons (SPB). The ZPB provides lift for the system while the SPB may provide a variable amount of ballast air by pumping in or expelling out ambient air. Various advanced performance targets relating to ascent rate, descent rate, range and maximum altitude are achievable with various scaled versions of the basic design of the LTA system. Advanced navigation and control techniques, such as more efficient... |
| 12747040 | 9/29/2026 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Reusable separation system for rocket fairing and payload | A separation system for a rocket having a payload release assembly and a fairing release assembly. Release devices secure and then separate the payload and fairing from the rocket. The release devices have rotatable bolts that retract. The release devices are cooled to survive reentry and may then be reused. A heat shield at the forward end of the rocket allows for reuse of the rocket and separation system. The rocket may be a reusable, upper (e.g. second) stage rocket.... |
| 12747522 | 9/29/2026 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Self-adaptive fabric for space applications | Self-adaptive fabrics for space applications are provided. In one aspect, a fabric for use in space includes a structural fabric and a plurality of synthetic fibers woven into a self-adaptive fabric. The self-adaptive fabric is attached to the structural fabric. Each of the synthetic fibers includes a plurality of hollow cells containing a trapped gas. The synthetic fibers are formed of a material having a sufficient elasticity such that the diameter of each of the synthetic fibers is configured to increase when the environmental pressure decreases.... |
| 12747742 | 9/29/2026 | United Launch Alliance | Centennial, CO | System for controlling temperature and pressure inside a propellant tank | Apparatus, systems and methods for pumping fluids, including for the purpose of controlling temperature and pressure in a propellant tank include a type of novel ejector, consisting of a typical ejector and an isolation valve integrated on the inlet of secondary fluid to an ejector, or suction chamber. The inlet valve is actuated by the application of the primary motive fluid pressure to a motive nozzle. The ejector is configured to operate when submerged in the secondary fluid.... |
| 12748015 | 9/29/2026 | NASA | Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC | Transducer geometry for amplification of axial load response and suppression of non-axial response | This present disclosure is about a wind tunnel balance axial section. A wind tunnel balance is a sensor that measures six force/moment components from a test model in a wind tunnel. An axial section, one of the six measurement sections in the balance, is the hardest section to design because it is often required to measure an axial force which is much smaller than other force components. Therefore, there is a specific design requirement for the axial section to selectively amplify the axial force response and suppress the non-axial responses. This disclosure presents a sensor mechanism compose... |
| 12749823 | 9/29/2026 | VIASAT | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | Method of forming antenna with underfill | A method of forming an antenna involves forming an antenna element on an upper surface of an antenna substrate; and forming an opening that extends from the upper surface to a lower surface of the antenna substrate. An RFIC component is attached to the lower surface of the antenna substrate through a plurality of interconnects, the RFIC component thereby being spaced from the lower surface of the antenna substrate. The RFIC component includes beamforming circuitry for RF coupling to the antenna element through the antenna substrate. Underfill is inserted into the opening from the upper surface... |
| 12750123 | 9/29/2026 | Viasat | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | Small-signal centric scalable, massive signal processing gain architecture | Methods, systems, and devices for small-signal centric scalable, massive signal processing gain architecture is described. Antenna elements may receive signal components associated with a first signal transmitted from a terminal in a first frequency range, where the first signal includes a receive message. Low noise amplifiers may amplify a second frequency range of the receive signal components to obtain amplified receive signal components. Analog to digital converters may digitize the amplified receive signal components over the second frequency range to obtain digitized receive signal compo... |
| 12750125 | 9/29/2026 | European Space Agency | Paris, | Heuristic radio resource management for massive MIMO in satellite broadband communication networks | Beam pointing directions and resource mappings are determined for performing wireless communications between a hub station and a plurality of user terminals. For at least one user terminal, a set of candidate beam pointing directions among a predefined set of beam pointing directions is determined such that the candidate beam pointing directions differ from a direction pointing towards the at least one user terminal by less than a predefined amount. For each of the candidate beam pointing directions, a quantity is determined that is positively correlated with an aggregated interference that a ... |
| 12750128 | 9/29/2026 | Hughes Network Systems | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Beam hopping methods for next-generation integrated terrestrial-non-terrestrial networks | Beam hopping (BH) approaches are described herein for integrated terrestrial-non-terrestrial network (iTNTNs) having a terrestrial radio access network integrated with multi-beam satellite communications. A macro-level BH configuration can be generated, based on present and projected network data, to include synchronized traffic channel and acquisition channel BH cycles, each with respective cycle durations and dwell resolutions. The configuration can also include a PNT channel BH cycle with its own cycle duration and dwell resolution for use by a dedicated PNT beam. The macro-level configurat... |
| 12750133 | 9/29/2026 | Dell Products L.P. | Austin-Round Rock, TX | Satellite communications tunneling protocol for a space mesh network | A system can communicate, by a satellite, with a user equipment according to a defined wireless communication protocol, and receive a radio-frequency communication from the user equipment via a satellite service link. The system can perform a programmable band-pass filter on the radio-frequency communication to produce a filtered communication. The system can perform an analog-to-digital conversion on the filtered communication to produce a digital communication. The system can create a packet header for the digital communication. The system can encapsulate the digital communication with the p... |
| 12750138 | 9/29/2026 | Aalyria Technologies | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | Optical wavelength diversity techniques for free-space optical communication | A free-space optical communication terminal includes a first transmitter configured to transmit data using a first light beam in a short-wavelength infrared band (e.g., around 1.5 m), a second transmitter configurable to transmit data using a second light beam in a mid-wavelength or long-wavelength infrared band (e.g., around 10 m), an optical multiplexer coupled to the first transmitter and the second transmitter and configured to multiplex the first light beam and the second light beam into a multiplexed light beam, and a reflective optical antenna configured to transmit the multiplexed ligh... |
| 12750684 | 9/29/2026 | ATT Intellectual Property I L.P. | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA | Distributed wireline/wireless bandwidth orchestration/aggregation to PON/WAN nodes using licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum (including satellite) | Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a first device is communicating under a bandwidth surplus with a fixed network, wherein the bandwidth surplus results at least in part from use by the first device of one or more link aggregation groups, wherein the one or more link aggregation groups comprise one or more satellite broadband communication channels as well as licensed cellular wireless spectrum, unlicensed wireless spectrum, or a combination of the licensed cellular and unlicensed spectrum; determining whether a second device is communicating under ... |
