ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,439, issued on July 15, was assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS (Les Mureaux, France).
"Multi-orbit space monitoring device" was invented by Paul Giraud (Le Haillan, France), Yoann Dussoulier (Le Haillan, France), Guillaume Delomenie (Le Haillan, France) and Gaetan Eyheramono (Le Haillan, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring objects in space orbit around the Earth, the device including a chassis, a plate, at least three optical survey modules, and a power supply and control block housed at least partially inside the chassis, the plate being mounted on the chassis, and each optical survey module being mounted on the p...