ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,908, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Flying path prediction method, ground system, flying object's flying path model, flying path prediction device, flying object tracking system, flying object coping system, unified data library, surveillance satellite, and satellite constellation" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By taking launch detection information of a flying object as a starting point, a ground system repeats process of referring to a model database that has stored therein a plurality of flying path models, analyzing flying object surveillance information...