ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,166, issued on July 29, was assigned to TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING CENTER FOR SPACE UTILIZATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Satellite communication method and system based on network coding and modulated-retro reflection" was invented by Lu Lu (Beijing), Pengfei Shen (Beijing), Pengwu Han (Beijing), Yanmei Jia (Beijing) and Congmin Lv (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a satellite communication method and system based on network coding and modulated-retro reflection. The method includes: constructing a satellite communication network based on modulated-retro reflection, and constructi...