US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 3 for "Backward compatible physical layer and signaling for satellite communication" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,851, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Backward compatible physical layer and signaling for satellite communication" was invented by James J. Jong (North Potomac, Md.), Channasandra Ravishankar (Clarksburg, Md.), William Whitmarsh (San Diego), Nassir Benammar (Rockville, Md.), Santharam Gurumani (Frederick, Md.), Pablo Valle (San Diego) and Jianxia Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating with a legacy terminal supporting a legacy air interface and a new terminal supporting a next generation air interface including: assigning a same carrier to the legacy te...