US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Nov. 4 for "Random access for broadband 4G and 5G over satellite" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,567, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Random access for broadband 4G and 5G over satellite" was invented by Xiangdong Liu (Boyds, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for communication in 4G and 5G broadband satellite networks are provided. The disclosed methods include Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-independent methods, and GNSS assisted methods that do not require transmission of satellite ephemeris information from a base station to user equipment."

The patent was filed on July 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/221,817.

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