| PatNum | IssueDate | Assignee | AssigneeLoc | Patent Title | Abstract |
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| 12710023 | 8/18/2026 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Rocket nozzle assembly with separable nozzle extension | Rocket nozzle assembly having a separable outboard nozzle extension for transitioning from a vacuum-optimized to an atmospheric-optimized configuration. The nozzle assembly includes an inboard divergent nozzle section attached at an interface with a detachable outboard divergent nozzle extension. The nozzle and extension are removably attached via a connector, such as a clamp and strap. An actuator causes the connector to release and thereby allow the extension to separate from the nozzle in flight. The nozzle assembly may be used with a reusable second stage rocket that lands on the ground or... |
| 12710067 | 8/18/2026 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Fastener for temporarily securing components | Toggle bolts are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a fastener configured to temporarily secure a component to a support structure during installation of the component. The fastener includes a proximal portion configured to selectively engage and disengage a hole in the support structure. The fastener also has an intermediate portion having a plurality of retention arms. Each of the retention arms is configured to transition between a resting configuration and a compressed configuration. The fastener also includes a distal portion configured to guide traversal of the fastener through the hole in... |
| 12710234 | 8/18/2026 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Modular double brazed phase-change material heat exchanger | A phase change material (PCM) heat exchanger system for a rocket or other spacecraft is described. The PCM heat exchanger utilizes phase-change material to store heat absorbed from a hot working fluid. The PCM heat exchanger may be configured as an integrated modular double brazed layout that includes folded fins to distribute heat from a working fluid (e.g., hydraulic fluid) to PCM. A modular configuration may enable a heat exchanger system to be scaled up or down by adding or removing modules to meet cooling requirements for particular rockets and their flights.... |
| 12710739 | 8/18/2026 | NASA | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | Automated testing and characterization of additive manufacturing | A system method for characterizing an additive manufacturing (AM) machine or feedstock material of the AM machine include using the AM machine to generate one or more coupons from the feedstock material, conducting successive measurements of a parameter associated with the one or more coupons to generate a database, and applying machine learning to the database to generate a discerned characteristic of the AM machine and/or feedstock material.... |
| 12712597 | 8/18/2026 | Space Exploration Technologies | Starbase, TX | Systems and methods for managing doppler shift in cellular service signals from terrestrial user equipment at a satellite | A satellite computer system of a satellite is configured to communicate with user equipment (UE). The satellite includes an antenna configured to communicate with the UE via directional beams that define cells of a radio access network (RAN). The satellite computer system can perform steps that can include one or more of: receiving on a first beam a data stream including an uplink signal from a first UE, wherein the received uplink signal includes a Doppler shift; compensating the received data stream for a reference Doppler shift based on a trajectory of the satellite relative to a cell refer... |
| 12712605 | 8/18/2026 | Viasat | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | Yaw drift compensation for pointing an antenna | A method for pointing an antenna can include positioning, by a positioner, a beam of an antenna mounted on a vehicle to an initial angular position towards a target satellite based on an initial pointing direction for the antenna, the initial pointing direction being defined in a fixed reference plane and communicating, from the antenna, a signal with the target satellite, wherein the positioner controls an orientation of a pedestal of the antenna. The method also includes, executing, by an antenna control unit (ACU), an offset compensation operation of the antenna. The offset correction opera... |
| 12712631 | 8/18/2026 | Viasat | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | Position-based access to satellite networks for satellite terminals | The described features generally relate to receiving one or more positioning signals at a satellite terminal during installation of the satellite terminal at a customer premises, and providing position-based access to a satellite communications system based on a satellite terminal installation position determined from the received positioning signals. The determined installation position of the satellite terminal may then be employed for various network access techniques, such as providing access to the satellite communications system, providing position-based content, or restricting content v... |
| 12712656 | 8/18/2026 | HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | System and method for spectral bandwidth reallocation based on load detection and/or prediction in a data communication network | A data processing system and method for reallocating inroute channels of a receiver of a data communication system, the receiver being configured to receive communication signals of the data communication system on the inroute channels. The reallocating is performed by detecting an offered load of the communications signals on the inroute channels of the receiver, reallocating Scrambled Code Multiple Access/Asynchronous Scrambled Code Multiple Access (SCMA/ASCMA) channels of the inroute channels to Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) channels of the inroute channels upon detecting that the of... |
