ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,024, issued on June 17, was assigned to STAR MESH LLC (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

"Radio system using satellites" was invented by Gerald R. Schloemer (Round Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication route enables communication from an originating ground station to a destination ground station via one of multiple randomly orbiting satellites with no attitude control. The ground stations and satellites include directional antennas for receiving radio signals from and transmitting radio signals in multiple directions. The satellites store an address of a destination ground station from which an initial information ...