ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,543, issued on May 20, was assigned to LOFT ORBITAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.S. (Toulouse, France).

"Systems and methods for describing, simulating and optimizing spaceborne systems and missions" was invented by Pierre-Damien Vaujour (San Francisco), Lucas Bremond (San Francisco), Pieter van Duijn (San Francisco) and Pierre Bertrand (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/362,970.

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