ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,027, issued on April 22, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Flexible capacity satellite communications system" was invented by Mark J. Miller (Vista, Calif.) and Charles N. Pateros (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an alloc...