US Patent Issued to VANTOR on Sept. 15 for "Onboard geolocation for images" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,686, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VANTOR INC. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Onboard geolocation for images" was invented by Edward Calohill Burks III (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Peter Kevin Greene (Broomfield, Colo.), William Ryder Whitmire (Longmont, Colo.), Tyler Jacob Lanes (Broomfield, Colo.) and Christopher John Schiavone (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Onboard geolocation of target pixels in images captured by a spacecraft is disclosed. By performing the geolocation onboard the spacecraft considerable time is saved. The geolocation may be based on timestamped ephemeris data and timestamped attitude data of the spacecra...