US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on July 1 for "Averaged beamforming for satellite communication" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,292, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Averaged beamforming for satellite communication" was invented by Neal David Becker (Olney, Md.) and Udaya Bhaskar (North Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamforming system for an antenna for satellite communications, where the antenna includes an array of radiating elements, the system including: a processor programmed to implement a set of averaging functions, the processor programmed to receive channel vectors representing responses from a center and other locations in each of a number of cells to be served, the averaging functions t...