ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,633, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Efficient bandwidth utilization for communication systems" was invented by Nimesh P. Ambeskar (Germantown, Md.), Ashritha Mohan Ram (Germantown, Md.) and John Border (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dynamically reducing an aperture size to reduce overhead. For example, a server can receive a first transmission from a first terminal through a communication network. The server can determine a timing offset associated with the first termi...