US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 21 for "Positioning method, lunar positioning system, and positioning satellite" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,324, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positioning method, lunar positioning system, and positioning satellite" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flying object flies in an outer space from the earth to the moon or a planet or near the moon or a planet. The flying object includes a positioning-signal reception device. A ground station includes a positioning-signal transmission device equipped with a directivity-direction control function and has known position coordinates in an earth-fixed coordinate system. The flying object measures position coordinates in t...