ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,298, issued on April 15, was assigned to Xidian University (Xi'an, China).

"Service-level communication and computing collaborative resource allocation device and method for large-scale satellite networks" was invented by Di Zhou (Xi'an, China), Chenxi Bao (Xi'an, China), Min Sheng (Xi'an, China), Jiandong Li (Xi'an, China), Yan Shi (Xi'an, China), Weigang Bai (Xi'an, China), Sijing Ji (Xi'an, China) and Yan Zhu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service-level communication and computing collaborative resource allocation device and method for a large-scale satellite network are provided, the device includes: a network info...