US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on Sept. 8 for "Orbital object identification system and method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,995, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Orbital object identification system and method" was invented by James Peter Robert Day (Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands), Fabrizio Silvestri (Delft, Netherlands), Ivan Ferrario (Delft, Netherlands) and Jerome Caron (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooperative orbital object identification system is disclosed herein that comprises an identification station and at least one tagged orbital object, i.e. an orbital object with a retroreflecting identification tag mounted ...