Egypt’s Ayman Ragab, a space science researcher currently located in Finland, has had a patent approved by NASA for his research on ways to achieve sustainability and save energy in low-gravity environments. He is a participant in NASA’s Technology Transfer Program, a project that aims to evaluate the usage of different technologies in space. Ragab emphasized that his journey to get the patent was extremely difficult, adding that his first patent with the agency had an applied and a practical side. The theoretical evaluation of his idea went through several interviews and discussions that lasted about four months, he said. He is currently working as a researcher at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Oulu in Finland.

Source: Egypt Independent April 08, 2021 12:00 UTC