ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,690, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ultra-low latency inter-satellite communication links" was invented by Stephen T. Palermo (Chandler, Ariz.), Valerie J. Parker (Portland, Ore.), Udayan Mukherjee (Portland, Ore.), Rajesh Gadiyar (Chandler, Ariz.) and Jason K. Smith (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for the deployment and coordination of inter-satellite communication pathways, defined for use with a satellite non-terrestrial network, are discussed. Among other examples, such inter-satellite communication pathways may be identified, reserved, allocated, and ...