US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 29 for "Method, system and apparatus for spacecraft attitude control error reduction in trajectory interpolation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,194, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Alington, Va.).

"Method, system and apparatus for spacecraft attitude control error reduction in trajectory interpolation" was invented by Roberto Cristi (Pebble Beach, Calif.), Joshua Levitas (Monterey, Calif.) and Mark Karpenko (Salinas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for controlling an attitude of a spacecraft, the spacecraft including an attitude control system operatively associated with a ground-based spacecraft control system. According to an exemplary embodi...