ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,862, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Deep learning for rain fade prediction in satellite communications" was invented by Aidin Ferdowsi Khosrowshahi (Germantown, Md.), David Whitefield (Germantown, Md.) and Rob Torres (New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for predicting rain fade. The method may include: training a Neural Network (NN) by importing into the NN a training set of image information and beacon information, wherein the image information includes image datasets including of a cloud view of an Area of Interest (AoI), a geolocation and a timestamp...