ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,407, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Method and device for constructing integrated space-terrestrial network" was invented by Yuanjie Li (Beijing), Hewu Li (Beijing), Jiayi Liu (Beijing), Wei Liu (Beijing), Lixin Liu (Beijing), Qian Wu (Beijing), Jun Liu (Beijing) and Zeqi Lai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided by the present application are a method and a device for constructing integrated space-terrestrial network, the method including: obtaining a target constellation and standardizing a relative motion between each target satellite in the target constellation and earth's surface ac...