ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,293, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Express mesh intersatellite optical coherent networking" was invented by Michael Y. Frankel (Bethesda, Md.) and Vladimir Pelekhaty (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring an express mesh satellite network includes monitoring a plurality of satellites in a constellation, wherein each of the plurality of satellites includes a plurality of coherent optical modems; determining a topology of the constellation based on (1) ground traffic sources and sinks and (2) locations of any of the plurality of satellites; and causing the any of the pluralit...