US Patent Issued to JENA-OPTRONIK on Jan. 20 for "Method, device and computer program for determining the position of a satellite using a star tracker" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,603, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to JENA-OPTRONIK GMBH (Germany).

"Method, device and computer program for determining the position of a satellite using a star tracker" was invented by Uwe Schmidt (Buergel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of a satellite rotating about an axis of rotation using at least a star tracker which is aligned along an optical axis with a recorded light object field, the axis of rotation and the optical axis being at a fixed angle relative to one another and a light sensor having a sensor surface which is perpendicular to the optical axis and contains a sensor c...