US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Crowdsource satellite network" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,553, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Crowdsource satellite network" was invented by Naeem Altaf (Round Rock, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for determining an impact threat of an orbiting object by a crowdsource satellite network. The techniques include capturing, by a satellite included in a crowdsource satellite network, information associated with an orbiting object detected by the satellite. The techniques further include providing, by the satellite, the information associated with the orbiting object ...