ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,138, issued on July 29, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).
"System and method of providing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme" was invented by Jayasuryan V. Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), Yashodhan Dandekar (Cupertino, Calif.), Khasim Shaheed Shaik Mahammad (Milpitas, Calif.), Ramakrishna Akella (San Diego), Chen Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Phillip E. Barber (Sammamish, Wash.) and Peter J. Worters (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for downlink link adaptation includes receiving, from a satellite and at a user terminal, a first data packet data unit according to a first downlin...