US Patent Issued to PLANET LABS PBC on Aug. 5 for "Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,621, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PLANET LABS PBC (San Francisco).

"Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods" was invented by Henrique Miranda (Castro Valley, Calif.) and 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 sy...