US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Nov. 25 for "Relayed ground-to-satellite free-space-optical communications" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,329, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Relayed ground-to-satellite free-space-optical communications" was invented by Sayed Hasan Hariq (Germantown, Md.) and Rohit Iyer Seshadri (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for implementing free space optical (FSO) ground-to-satellite communications. In general, an optical ground station communicates optically with a satellite via a ground-to-satellite FSO communication link. Embodiments described herein deploy at least two FSO relays at one or more aerial platform altitudes to effectively segment the ground...