US Patent Issued to Tesat-Spacecom on Nov. 11 for "Calibration of alignment errors of a communication unit by means of the moon" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,298, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG (Backnang, Germany).

"Calibration of alignment errors of a communication unit by means of the moon" was invented by Daniel Dallmann (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication unit and a method for calibrating the alignment of a communication unit in a mobile carrier platform are described. The method incudes the following steps: determining an initial alignment of the communication unit with the moon on the basis of a position and bearing of the mobile carrier platform; moving the communication unit so that it adopts the initial alignment; tra...