US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Space debris detection and mitigation with a network of deployed observatories" (Australian, Pakistani, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,248, issued on April 29.

"Space debris detection and mitigation with a network of deployed observatories" was invented by Muhammad Akbar Hussain (Craigmore, Australia), Muhammad Mehdi Hussain (Karachi, Pakistan), Muhammad Waqar Haider (Lalor, Australia) and Muhammad Ayaz Hussain (Bottrop, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space debris removing device, system and method are disclosed.The system comprises a central server, a primary detection node, at least two secondary tracer nodes, the central server is configured to assign a tertiary node to track the debris with laser, wherein the tertiary node is configured to mark the debr...