ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,170, issued on July 29.
"Multiple user access channel" was invented by Matthew N. Ettus (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Shahram Talakoub (San Jose, Calif.), Ian Buckley (Bend, Ore.) and Sebastian B. Seeber (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system may include a satellite and user equipment (UE) devices. When the UE devices have uplink (UL) packets to transmit, each UE device may randomly select a time slot within a finite time window associated with a time reference of the satellite. The UE device may identify a path length between itself and the satellite and may generate a timing advance based on the path l...