US Patent Issued to VECTOR SPACE on Dec. 30 for "Thermosphere-ionosphere model updating for low-earth orbits" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,457, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VECTOR SPACE LLC (Boulder, Colo.).

"Thermosphere-ionosphere model updating for low-earth orbits" was invented by Mihail Codrescu (Boulder, Colo.) and Stefan Codrescu (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining an orbital effect on a low-Earth orbiting object includes, forming an ensemble of thermosphere-ionosphere state models to represent thermosphere-ionosphere state model uncertainty, assimilating measured thermosphere-ionosphere data into a select thermosphere-ionosphere state model of the ensemble in accordance with a Kalman gain derived fro...