ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,992, issued on March 17, was assigned to D-ORBIT S.P.A. (Fino Mornasco, Italy).
"Satellite module for attitude determination" was invented by Lorenzo Ferrario (Fino Mornasco, Italy), Marco Bevilacqua (Fino Mornasco, Italy), Luca Zorzi (Fino Mornasco, Italy) and Giorgio Grimoldi (Fino Mornasco, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite module for attitude determination includes a containment body comprising at least one data acquisition board and a connection interface, at least one first-type sensor selected from a sun sensor, an earth sensor, a stellar sensor, a horizon sensor, in communication with the data acquisition boar...