ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,902, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Flexible frequency band pairing for satellite communications" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Aamir Akram (San Jose, Calif.), Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sharath Ananth (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques for flexible frequency band pairing for satellite communications. In aspects, a non-terrestrial communication system uses multiple frequency bands for a wireless link between a user equipment, UE, and a satellite of the non-terrestrial communication system. The non-terrestria...