US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TIME SERVICE CENTER, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Feb. 10 for "Method for correcting orbit error of common-view time comparison of space station" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,443, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NATIONAL TIME SERVICE CENTER, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shaanxi, China).

"Method for correcting orbit error of common-view time comparison of space station" was invented by Yinhua Liu (Shaanxi, China), Xiaohui Li (Shaanxi, China), Ya Liu (Shaanxi, China) and Shougang Zhang (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting an orbit error of common-view time comparison of a space station, comprising five parts, i.e., determination of moments when two stations can simultaneously view the space station, calculation of projection coefficients of the orbit error, calculati...