US Patent Issued to Skeyeon on March 25 for "System for producing remote sensing data from near earth orbit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,307, issued on March 25, was assigned to Skeyeon Inc. (San Diego).

"System for producing remote sensing data from near earth orbit" was invented by Ronald E. Reedy (San Diego) and Thomas E. Schwartzentruber (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite system operates at altitudes between 180 km and 350 km relying on vehicles including an engine to counteract atmospheric drag to maintain near-constant orbit dynamics. The system operates at altitudes that are substantially lower than traditional satellites, reducing size, weight and cost of the vehicles and their constituent subsystems such as optical imagers, radars, and rad...