US Patent Issued to Space Exploration Technologies on March 4 for "Tilted earth-based antenna systems and methods of tilting for communication with a satellite system" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,399, issued on March 4, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Tilted earth-based antenna systems and methods of tilting for communication with a satellite system" was invented by Duncan E. Adams (Redmond, Wash.), David Milroy (Kirkland, Wash.), Jonathan Francois Cornelis Herman (Los Angeles) and Jessica D. Johnson (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a satellite communication system includes a satellite constellation including a plurality of satellites in non-geosynchronous orbit (non-GEO), wherein at least some of the plurality of satellites ...