ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,856, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Antenna systems and methods for tracking non-geosynchronous satellites" was invented by Rodney A. Morris (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Patrick E. Tynan (Atlanta) and David E. Sinyard (Sugar Hill, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a ground station antenna system for tracking a non-Geo satellite. A signal is received from the satellite and a signal quality metric associated with the signal is estimated. A first tracking mode is selected and implemented when the estimated signal quality metric is below a threshold, in which the signal is demodulated ...