US Patent Issued to ICEYE on Aug. 5 for "Classification of matter from space" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,466, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ICEYE OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Classification of matter from space" was invented by Pekka Laurila (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple synthetic aperture radar "SAR" images of a target area on the earth are acquired using a satellite travelling in an orbit above the earth in a single pass of the satellite over the target area. In some methods, the data for each image is acquired from a different angle of incidence with respect to the target area. Then, the variation of quantity of backscattered radiation with respect to angle of incidence is analysed and used to identify matter im...