ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,668, issued on May 20.
"Satellite constellation scheduling" was invented by Skylar Cox (North Logan, Utah), Justin Whitaker (Logan, Utah), John Humble (Logan, Utah) and Greg Droge (Nibley, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For generating a points-of-interest plan, a method generates communication graph nodes for at least one satellite. The method calculates communication graph edges from the communication graph nodes, wherein the communication graph nodes and the communication graph edges comprise a communication graph. The method solves the communication graph to yield a communication plan. The method generates a points-of-interes...