US Patent Issued to Viasat on March 11 for "Coverage area adjustment to adapt satellite communications" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,060, issued on March 11, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Coverage area adjustment to adapt satellite communications" was invented by Aaron Mendelsohn (Dana Point, Calif.) and Donald Runyon (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described features generally relate to adjusting a native antenna pattern of a satellite to adapt communications via the satellite. For example, a communications satellite may include an antenna having a feed array assembly, a reflector, and a linear actuator coupled between the feed array assembly and the reflector. The feed array assembly may have a plurality of feeds for communica...