Regolith Shielding Cartridge

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• Patents (if filed): cartridge geometry, interlocking, lid-seal method, low-temperature shell process, robotic fill/cap sequence.  
• Copyright: drawings, CAD, reports, the concept images, simulation write-up.  
• Know-how that is not patented: process windows, kill criteria, imported-mass budget, Gate 0–2 test plan.

Without filed patents, NASA mostly gets a disclosure + license to practice, not an exclusive asset.

 The acquirable “product” is the RSC spec:

• thin ISRU shell + loose-regolith fill + cap  
• imported mass target (~8 g/m² class)  
• jobs split: contain / seal / abrade / shield  
• H1 backup (Earth bags) still in the architecture

There is no factory, no flight unit, no qualified material. 

• Stage-gate with imported-mass and dust-leak KPIs  
• Why fabric bags fail the contract  
• Coupon → 1:1 vacuum stack → CLPS pathfinder sequence  
• Which paths were killed (geopolymer skin, full loom) and why

Agencies pay for decision logic and test methods as much as for a shape. 

NASA rarely “acquires” a firm for this. More typical: hire the inventors under a contract, or fold them into a NASA center / JPL / KSC ISRU team, or fund them via SBIR/STTR.