ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,635, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"LEO satellite, LEO satellite system, and control method" was invented by Koya Takata (Tokyo), Masahiro Kaiden (Tokyo) and Kenji Wakafuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "an LEO satellite includes a light projecting element that emits emission light to another LEO satellite, an optical telescope, an optical phased array, a light receiving element that receives incident light from the other LEO satellite, a distance measurement unit that measures a distance to the other LEO satellite based on at least one of the emission light and the incident light, and a control unit. T...