US Patent Issued to JENA-OPTRONIK on Feb. 24 for "Method, device and computer program for determining the position of a spacecraft in space" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,832, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JENA-OPTRONIK GMBH (Germany).

"Method, device and computer program for determining the position of a spacecraft in space" was invented by Uwe Schmidt (Buergel, Germany), Reinhard Berger (Jena, Germany), Olivier Ballereau (Jena, Germany) and Thomas Kuehn (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of a spacecraft in space includes receiving image data from a plurality of differently oriented optics modules, processing the received image data and computing a position, a rate of rotation and/or direction of rotation from the processed image data. The method ...