ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,604, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-orbit satellite data center" was invented by Stephen T. Palermo (Chandler, Ariz.), Valerie J. Parker (Portland, Ore.) and Udayan Mukherjee (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for the deployment and coordination of network operation processing, compute processing, and inter-satellite communication coordination, within one or multiple satellite non-terrestrial networks, are discussed. Among other examples, a data center located at one or more satellites operating in a middle Earth orbit (MEO) plane, geosynchronous orbit (GEO) p...