US Patent Issued to Lynk Global on March 11 for "Method and apparatus for handling communications between spacecraft operating in an orbital environment and terrestrial telecommunications devices that use terrestrial base station communications" (New York, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,064, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lynk Global Inc. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Method and apparatus for handling communications between spacecraft operating in an orbital environment and terrestrial telecommunications devices that use terrestrial base station communications" was invented by Tyghe Robert Speidel (New York) and Andrew J. Gerber (Darnestown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple-access transceiver handles communications with mobile stations in environments that exceed mobile station design assumptions without necessarily requiring modifications to the mobile stations. One such environment is in Earth orbit. Th...