US Patent Issued to widgetblender on April 22 for "Capture-less orbital debris management system (CODMS), method, and CODMS satellite" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,897, issued on April 22, was assigned to widgetblender LLC (Haymarket, Va.).

"Capture-less orbital debris management system (CODMS), method, and CODMS satellite" was invented by Jeffrey Bruce Morse (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and satellite for capture-less management of orbital debris objects, include controlling a satellite having opposing thrusters to be maintained at a predetermined distance from an orbital debris object to be managed, i.e., paired with the orbital debris object. Management may include fine tracking of the orbital debris object and/or operating the opposing thrusters to apply force to th...