US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on May 6 for "Next generation mobile satellite service (MSS)" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,443, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Next generation mobile satellite service (MSS)" was invented by Channasandra Ravishankar (Clarksburg, Md.), James Jong (North Potomac, Md.), Gaguk Zakaria (Frederick, Md.) and Nassir Benammar (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a hybrid 4G satellite network. The method includes providing a NGSG including a satellite AS/NAS stack, a terrestrial 4G stack and a relay to connect the satellite AS/NAS stack and the terrestrial 4G stack; transporting a 4G traffic between a 4G UE and the NGSG using a satellite air...