US Patent Issued to JASR Systems on July 22 for "Sunlit orbital debris search using hierarchical processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,490, issued on July 22, was assigned to JASR Systems LLC (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Sunlit orbital debris search using hierarchical processing" was invented by Brett Alverson Spivey (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Christopher Sexton (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system that searches for and finds orbital debris that can be a hazard to satellites and the like, for which the debris is sunlit. The system includes a ground-based telescope pointed at the sky; a detector array that detects images of the sunlit debris crossing the field of the detector; and a processing system that computes tracks from the...