US Patent Issued to ARIANEGROUP on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for daytime infrared space surveillance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,405, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).

"Method and system for daytime infrared space surveillance" was invented by Marine Pyanet (Les Mureaux, France), Theo Joffre (Les Mureaux, France) and Pascal Richard (Toulouse Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space surveillance method for detecting space objects in orbit around the Earth in images captured during the daytime, the method including the following steps: capturing a plurality of infrared images of the daytime sky using a camera including at least one infrared sensor, detecting space objects in orbit around the Earth on the basis ...