US Patent Issued to PLANET LABS PBC on April 22 for "Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,024, issued on April 22, was assigned to PLANET LABS PBC (San Francisco).

"Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods" was invented by Kiruthika Devaraj (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling satellites are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain a request for image data. The request can be associated with a priority for acquiring the image data. The computing system can determine an availability of a plurality of satellites to acquire the image data based at least in part on the request. The computing system can select from among a plurality of c...