ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,690, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Korea Aerospace Research Institute (Yuseong-su Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method, system, and apparatus for generating optimal imaging sequence for plurality of satellites" was invented by Seonho Lee (Yuseong-gu Daejeon, South Korea), Kimoon Lee (Yuseong-gu Daejeon, South Korea), Dongjin Kim (Yuseong-gu Daejeon, South Korea) and Dae Won Chung (Yuseong-gu Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, a system, and an apparatus for generating an optimal imaging sequence for a plurality of satellites. More particularly, provided are a method, a system, and an apparatus f...