ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,728, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Spectrum management for satellite constellations" was invented by Tusher Chakraborty (Bangalore, India) and Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for managing communication frequencies, including generating a geographical grid with a plurality of cells and allocating communication frequencies to the cells. Each of the communication frequencies is used for communication between a satellite and a ground device or ground IoT modem. A communication frequency allocated to one cell is different from ...