ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,668, issued on May 26, was assigned to SUZHOU ZHEN WANG OPTICAL Co. LTD (Suzhou, China).

"Method and astrophotographic apparatus for acquiring images of targets in sky area" was invented by Jia Wen (Suzhou, China), Mouling Song (Suzhou, China) and Di Meng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an astrophotographic apparatus for acquiring images of targets in a sky area. The method includes: step 1, an image acquisition device is driven through a controlled rotatable component to point to the position near a target in a sky area, and images of the sky area are acquired through the image acquisition dev...