US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 9 for "System for communication, tracking, and ranging using an optical link" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,848, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for communication, tracking, and ranging using an optical link" was invented by Jeff Clark Adams (Seattle), Donald Mitchell Cornwell (Bellevue, Wash.) and Endri Kerci (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Satellites may communicate using an optical communication system that provides high bitrate communication while also facilitating tracking, ranging, and low bitrate communication. Light modulated with a high bitrate signal is also modulated to include a set of orthogonal tones used for tracking, ranging, and low bitrate data. A conti...