US Patent Issued to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS on June 24 for "MAC layer enhancement for an air interface in a satellite communication system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,598, issued on June 24, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"MAC layer enhancement for an air interface in a satellite communication system" was invented by Channasandra Ravishankar (Clarksburg, Md.), Gaguk Zakaria (College Park, Md.) and John E. Corrigan III (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MAC layer enhancements in protocol stacks of a user terminal of a satellite communication system such as a 5G based system. The MAC layer may include a scheduler that allows resource aggregation by allocating additional radio resources to users on one beam using carriers allocated to an adjacent beam. The...