US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 30 for "Closed loop pointing system for ground to satellite communications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,976, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Closed loop pointing system for ground to satellite communications" was invented by Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communications system comprising a satellite traveling in an orbit and a relay system. The relay system is configured to receive a laser beam encoding information from a terrestrial location and relay the information to the satellite. The relay system is positioned at a selected distance from the satellite and the selected distance is set based on a speed of the satellite."

The patent was filed on Mar...