US Patent Issued to SMARTSKY NETWORKS on Sept. 23 for "Air to ground communication system with separate control and traffic channels" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,082, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Air to ground communication system with separate control and traffic channels" was invented by Douglas Hyslop (Vienna, Va.), Gerard James Hayes (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Elbert Stanford Eskridge Jr. (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station within a network for providing ATG wireless communication in various cells may include an antenna array defining a plurality of wedge shaped sectors having respective widths defined in azimuth, and a beamforming control module. The beamforming control module may be configured to communicate w...