ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,772, issued on May 12, was assigned to NORTHSTAR EARTH & SPACE INC. (Montreal).
"Systems and methods for generating a plurality of celestial images utilizing a plurality of satellites" was invented by Stewart Bain (Montreal), Narendra Gollu (Montreal), Peter Klimas (Montreal), Jean-Claude Leclerc (Montreal), Daniel O'Connell (Montreal), Frederic Pelletier (Montreal) and Naron Phou (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that i...