ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,055, issued on March 11, was assigned to NORTHSTAR EARTH & SPACE INC. (Montreal).

"System for generating and processing a plurality of celestial image features from a plurality of images of a sky and methods of use thereof" was invented by Frederic Pelletier (Quebec, Canada), Daniel O'Connell (Saint Lazarre, Canada), Peter Klimas (Ottawa), Jean-Claude Leclerc (Quebec, Canada), Narendra Gollu (Montreal), Pierre Tremblay (Quebec, Canada), Ryan Comeau (Kelowna, Canada), Noemi Giammichele (Montreal) and Priyatharsan Epoor Rajasekar (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of satellites orbiting around a c...