ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,679, issued on March 25, was assigned to ViaSat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Access node farm for end-to-end beamforming" was invented by Kenneth V. Buer (Bluff City, Tenn.), Mark J. Miller (San Marcos, Calif.), Christopher J. Cronin (Monrovia, Md.), Mark D. Dankberg (Encinitas, Calif.) and Donald L. Runyon (Duluth, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically d...