US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Nov. 11 for "VSAT demodulator architecture for beam hopping satellite systems" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,341, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"VSAT demodulator architecture for beam hopping satellite systems" was invented by Seokho Kim (North Potomac, Md.), Sri Bhat (Boyds, Md.) and Brandon Lasher (Thurmont, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for demodulating burst communications, such as for demodulating satellite beam-hopping communications in a demodulator of a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite receiver. The demodulator includes a front-end and a sample/symbol domain processor. The front-end is configured to selectively operate in either of an adapt...