ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,041, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Satellite communication system, transmission power control method, transmission power controller, and program" was invented by Koichi Harada (Musashino, Japan), Fumihiro Yamashita (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroki Shibayama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission power controller includes: a control unit that outputs, within a range not exceeding a transmission power control (TPC) set point, a TPC controlled variable that increases transmission power of a transmission system device more in a case of a larger attenuation of a reception signal received from ...