ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,680, issued on March 25, was assigned to ViaSat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"System and method for end-to-end beamforming" was invented by Kenneth V. Buer (Bluff City, Tenn.) and Mark J. Miller (San Marcos, Calif.).
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, an end-to-end beamforming system include a relay satellite and a ground network to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground network includes geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system (CPS). Beamformers of the ground network generate fo...