ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,340, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Satellite antenna ground station service system" was invented by Lowell Shayn Hawthorne (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and David M. Nolton (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite antenna ground station service includes a plurality of ground stations and associated data centers, wherein the data centers are part of a provider network. Clients may reserve satellite antenna access time-slots via a user interface of the satellite antenna ground station service and store data directly to a data center of the provider network or to the client's premi...