Patents by Inventor Bryan Bowdle

Bryan Bowdle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Flexible propulsion system
    Patent number: 10336475
    Abstract: A spacecraft propulsion system includes at least one chemical thruster operable with a liquid propellant, at least one electric thruster operable with an inert gas, and a first quantity ‘n’ of pressurant tanks, each of the ‘n’ pressurant tanks having a substantially identical volume. The propulsion system results from assembling a plurality of subassemblies, such that a first selectable number ‘e’ of the first quantity of pressurant tanks are manifolded together with the at least one electric thruster, and a second selectable number ‘c’ of the first quantity of pressurant tanks are manifolded together with the at least one chemical thruster. The first selectable number ‘e’ is an integer in the inclusive range of 1 to ‘n’, and c=n?e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, LLC
    Inventors: Jorge Delgado, Jeff Aaron Baldwin, Ronald W. King, Bryan Bowdle, Michelle Karen Rahn