ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,352, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UNISTELLAR (Marseilles, France).

"Method for acquiring images of at least one celestial body and apparatus for implementing the method" was invented by Arnaud Malvache (Fuveau, France) and Antonin Borot (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition method includes defining a first optical sensor configuration of a matrix to acquire the image of a first celestial body of first nature, the first configuration having a plurality of unit pixels, defining at least one second optical sensor configuration of the matrix to acquire the image of the second celestial body of second...