US Patent Issued to ICEYE on Sept. 16 for "Satellite with spot light mode for extended duration target imaging" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,621, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ICEYE OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Satellite with spot light mode for extended duration target imaging" was invented by Darren Muff (Espoo, Finland), Vladimir Ignatenko (Espoo, Finland) and Matthew Nottingham (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite (140) for operation in orbit around the earth comprises an ADCS (131, FIG. 1) configured for mechanically steering the satellite in the azimuth direction to prolong a dwell time (1105), during which a selected target is visible from the satellite, as the satellite orbits over the target. A processor at the ground station may be configur...