US Patent Issued to SMARTSKY NETWORKS on July 8 for "Optimized position information assisted beamforming" (North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,870, issued on July 8, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Optimized position information assisted beamforming" was invented by Gerard James Hayes (Wake Forest, N.C.), Koichiro Takamizawa (Silver Spring, Md.) and Douglas Hyslop (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global positioning system (GPS) receiver may include an antenna configured to receive GPS signals from GPS satellites, a radio frequency (RF) front end configured to pre-process signals received by the antenna, a demodulator/converter configured to perform demodulation and analog-to-digital conversion of output signals received from the RF fr...