US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Dec. 23 for "Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,535, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods" was invented by Satyajit Roy (Gaithersburg, Md.) and George Choquette (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for outroute load balancing in a multi-band hybrid satellite communication system include comparing the load metric of each of code rate organizers (CROs) to a threshold value; placing each CRO in one of a surplus load balancing set and a deficit balancing set based on a value of the load metric; and determining a probability metric for each satellite te...