US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on April 29 for "Eigenmotion control for near rectilinear halo orbits" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,241, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Eigenmotion control for near rectilinear halo orbits" was invented by Avishai Weiss (Boston), Purnanand Elango (Seattle), Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.) and Uros Kalabic (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for maintaining a spacecraft near an orbit comprises steps of detecting that a distance from the spacecraft to the orbit is greater than a spacecraft threshold and in response, linearizing dynamics of the spacecraft from a current time over a time horizon with respect to a high-fidel...