US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 1 for "Automated determination of cost ownership of space debris" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,966, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated determination of cost ownership of space debris" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India) and Sridevi Kannan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for determining a degree of impact caused by space debris. A processor may receive data from a data stream of one or more satellites, the data including observational data of one or more objects in orbit. The processor may determine, based on an analysis of the observationa...