ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,908, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to AST & Science LLC (Miami).
"Network access management" was invented by Huiwen Yao (Potomac, Md.) and Abel Avellan (Coral Gables, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within a satellite communications system, a base station communicates with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station has a processor that instructs the satellite to generate a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, and detects an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal. The base station, comprising...