ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,504, issued on July 22.

"CPRI satellite communication system and method" was invented by Zhi Zhong Yu (Reading, Great Britain) and Federico Pedro Fawzi (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to a Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) satellite communication system and corresponding method. The satellite communication system has, in one arrangement, a base station configured to communicate with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station includes a plurality of base band units and a base station memory configured to store control information, downlink si...