US Patent Issued to Horizon Technologies Consultants on Nov. 4 for "Intercepting satellite telephone signals for surveillance" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,710, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Horizon Technologies Consultants Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Intercepting satellite telephone signals for surveillance" was invented by John Beckner (Munich) and Gary Goodrum (Colo de Caza, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The terrestrial-based satellite telephone monitoring system may be used for, among other things, intelligence gathering purposes that intercept communications to or from target satellite handsets or terminals. The exemplary signal processing units receive wireless signals and extend the line-of-sight range of a terrestrial-based satellite telephone monitoring system. T...