ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,821, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).
"Transmodulation for a multi-beam satellite communication system" was invented by Liping Chen (Bethesda, Md.), Rohit Iyer Seshadri (Gaithersburg, Md.), Mustafa Eroz (Rockville, Md.), Lin-Nan Lee (Potomac, Md.) and Stan Kay (Rockville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for performing transmodulation of a forward feeder link are presented. A first data stream and a second data stream can be modulated into a higher-order modulation forward feeder link having a higher-order digital modulation scheme. A satellite can receive the hig...