US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Nov. 18 for "Satellite system with orbital debris avoidance" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,102, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Satellite system with orbital debris avoidance" was invented by Leonard Vance (Tucson, Ariz.), Jose Maria Fernandez Moreno (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jekan Thangavelautham (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a satellite system with orbital debris avoidance. In one embodiment, the satellite system includes debris sensor circuitry to scan orbital debris items in an orbital debris field; and sensor controller circuitry to determine a search window within the orbital debris field bas...