US Patent Issued to Central South University on July 22 for "Distance control method and system for relative motion between satellites" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,858, issued on July 22, was assigned to Central South University (China).

"Distance control method and system for relative motion between satellites" was invented by Qifeng Chen (Changsha, China), Caisheng Wei (Changsha, China), Yuxin Liao (Changsha, China), Yunhe Meng (Changsha, China), Zhaotai Meng (Changsha, China) and Zhuangzhuang Xiong (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a distance control method of relative motion between satellites, by reducing the distance between a companion satellite and a reference satellite through the first position relation, and increasing the distance between a companion satellite and a ...