US Patent Issued to Viasat on Jan. 27 for "Techniques for end-to-end beamforming with multiple areas of simultaneous user coverage" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,575, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Techniques for end-to-end beamforming with multiple areas of simultaneous user coverage" was invented by Kenneth V. Buer (Bluff City, Tenn.) and James E. Petranovich (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communications system and method of operation provides service to pluralities of user terminals in multiple non-overlapping user coverage areas, based on performing ground-based, end-to-end beamforming simultaneously with respect to the multiple user coverage areas. A satellite communications system and method of operation provides service...