ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,602, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Distributed adaptive coding and modulation" was invented by James P. Scott (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Dennis L. Gould (Whittier, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed adaptive coding and modulation network includes multiple network hubs that move relative to Earth, communicate among each other using intra-hub links, communicate with endpoint devices via wireless links, and elect one network hub to operate as a leader hub. A remainder of the network hubs operate as follower hubs. The leader hub is operational to negotiate a current modulation and ...