US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 13 for "Celestial navigation object availability using light source enabled satellites" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,137, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Celestial navigation object availability using light source enabled satellites" was invented by Trevor Keith Stephens (Maple Grove, Minn.), Brian Schipper (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Ross Merritt (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for celestial navigation are provided. The method comprises requesting access to a light source on a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite; and sending an uplink message to the LEO satellite to power on the light source, in response to the access request. The method further comprises determining wheth...