US Patent Issued to Viasat on Oct. 28 for "Ground network for end-to-end beamforming" (Arizona, Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,032, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Ground network for end-to-end beamforming" was invented by Kenneth V. Buer (Gilbert, Ariz.), Mark J. Miller (San Marcos, Calif.) and Christopher J. Cronin (Monrovia, Md.).

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 distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signal...