ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,861, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LOFT ORBITAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.S. (Toulouse, France).

"System and method for providing spacecraft-based services" was invented by Pierre-Damien Vaujour (San Francisco), Lucas Bremond (San Francisco) and Pieter van Duijn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including one or more spacecraft and one or more ground control elements, wherein the spacecraft can include one or more payloads associated with one or more organizations. A method for providing spacecraft-based services, preferably including receiving service requests, deter...