US Patent Issued to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE on March 24 for "Method for acquiring images of a terrestrial zone using a spacecraft comprising a laser transmission module" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,626, issued on March 24, was assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for acquiring images of a terrestrial zone using a spacecraft comprising a laser transmission module" was invented by Mehdi Ghezal (Toulouse Cedex, France) and Emmanuel Giraud (Toulouse Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring images by a spacecraft is disclosed having an observation instrument and a laser transmission module, the method including a phase of acquiring an image of the surface of the Earth and a phase of transmitting images using the laser transmission module, and during each acquisition phase a...