ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,220, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Past event signal tracking" was invented by David Hancharik (Norcross, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for past event signal tracking are described. In some examples, a system may receive feed element signals corresponding to a set of feed elements of an antenna. To support a primary or real-time mission, the system may process the feed element signals according to a first beamforming configuration to generate spot beam signals, which may include communications scheduled for respective spot beams. To support a retroactive or search...