US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Feb. 3 for "Space-based imaging for characterizing space objects" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,087, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Space-based imaging for characterizing space objects" was invented by Christopher K. Walker (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to a space-based imaging approach for characterizing objects in space Earth or other planetary body. In one example, a method for characterizing objects in space includes illuminating an object in space about Earth or other planetary body with a narrow band, continuous wave (CW) radio beam transmitted by a transmitting telescope; receiving ret...