ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,430, issued on May 27, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Unified radio solution" was invented by Elbert Stanford Eskridge Jr. (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Bruce J. Holmes (Williamsburg, Va.), Gerard James Hayes (Wake Forest, N.C.) and James Evans Ladd Jr. (Hillsborough, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified radio system for providing wireless communication to a communication device on an aircraft regardless of aircraft altitude may include a terrestrial network including a plurality of terrestrial base stations configured to communicate primarily in a ground communication layer below a first altitude, an ATG...