US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 24 for "Method, system and apparatus for spacecraft attitude control using B -spline interpolation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,003, issued on June 24, 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 using B -spline interpolation" was invented by Mark Karpenko (Salinas, Calif.), Isaac M. Ross (Monterey, Calif.), Joshua Levitas (Monterey, Calif.) and Roberto Cristi (Pebble Beach, 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...