ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,227, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Space traffic management system, space traffic management device, collision avoidance assist business device, SSA business device, mega-constellation business device, and space traffic management method" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orbital analysis unit (431) of a collision avoidance assist business device identifies a mega-constellation satellite group formed in an orbital altitude which the mega-constellation satellite group is anticipated to pass during a flight of an unsteady-operation space object. An announcem...