ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,506, issued on July 8, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Techniques for calibration and measurements of an E-band satellite communication (SATCOM) system" was invented by Sam Morrar (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing efficient, reliable, and accurate calibration and measurements of a satellite communication (SATCOM) test system, especially in E-band frequencies where precision of measurement and calibration plays a large role in reliable communications at terabit data rates. The system may include a vector network analyzer (VNA), at 67 GHz operation, calibrated using SOLT...