ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,942, issued on May 20, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Dynamic spectrum and capacity reorganization in satellite systems" was invented by Murali Regunathan (Germantown, Md.), Rajeev Oza (Germantown, Md.) and Satyajit Roy (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus method and system are disclosed for dynamically implementing spectrum configuration plans in a satellite communication system. A spectrum configuration plan is created, and validated to determine if it can be utilized within the predetermined coverage area. If any errors are generated while validating the spectrum configuratio...