ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,291, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OroraTech GmbH (Munich).
"On-orbit georeferencing" was invented by Andrea Spichtinger (Munich), Valentin Dornauer (Munich), Fabian Schottl (Munich), Michael Schmitt (Neubiberg, Germany) and Mojgan Madadikhaljan (Neubiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of satellite-based georeferencing for IR images of Earth surface captured by a satellite-mounted IR imaging device pointing towards Earth includes capturing an IR image of Earth surface using the IR imaging device; determining an estimated pointing direction of the IR imaging device at the time of capturing the IR image, based o...