ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,508, issued on March 11, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Personalized connectivity user-specific content offerings" was invented by Ultan O'Brien (Carrickmines, Ireland), Niall O'Sullivan (Dundrum, Ireland) and Fergal Murray (Tomhaggard, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing selectable content offerings to mobile users via mobile terminals over a satellite system. In embodiments, a database of access profiles for accessing a network via the satellite system may be maintained. Each access profile corresponds to a respective content category of a plurality of ...