US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Intersatellite imaging data transfer" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,960, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intersatellite imaging data transfer" was invented by Tsu-Wang Hsieh (Redmond, Wash.), Behnaz Arzani (Redmond, Wash.), Peder Andreas Olsen (Redmond, Wash.), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.) and Chenning Li (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device including a processor configured to receive satellite status data from satellites included in a satellite constellation. The processor is further configured to determine a link topology of the satellites. Based at least in part on the satellite status data and the link to...