US Patent Issued to Urugus on June 9 for "Anonymous, authenticated and private satellite tasking system" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,160, issued on June 9, was assigned to Urugus S.A. (Montevideo, Uruguay).

"Anonymous, authenticated and private satellite tasking system" was invented by Gerardo Gabriel Richarte (Caba, Argentina) and Emiliano Kargieman (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices for implementing cryptographic and security-in-depth techniques on-board spacecrafts or satellites are provided, to allow users to task activities or retrieve satellite data from the satellite system in an anonymous, secure, safe, and private manner, such that no other user sharing the satellite system resources can know what has been ...