US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 17 for "Robust satellite beacon receiver" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,966, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Robust satellite beacon receiver" was invented by James Jehong Jong (North Potomac, Md.) and Pablo Valle (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beacon receiver including: a Digital Fourier Transform (DFT) module including bins to acquire and to track a beacon signal; an acquisition processor to find acquisition frequency estimates of the beacon signal, to improve the acquisition frequency estimates with a generalized complex interpolator and to linearize the acquisition frequency estimates; and a tracking filter to track the acquired beacon si...