ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,619, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method suitable for controlling operations of a spacecraft based on an isoperimetric reformulation of constraints" was invented by Avishai Weiss (Boston), Abraham Vinod (Cambridge, Mass.), Purnanand Elango (Seattle) and Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a controller and a method for controlling an operation of a vehicle subject to constraints based on continuously parametrized sets (CPS). The controller comprises at least one processor and a non-transitor...