US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Managing satellite communications in flexible form factors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,273, issued on March 24.

"Managing satellite communications in flexible form factors" was invented by Hendrik J Volkerink (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a wireless sensing system automatically switches from using a primary satellite network to using a backup satellite network. The node uses primary parameters of the primary satellite network to determine when the primary satellite network is unavailable. The node determines, based on backup parameters for the backup satellite network, an expected availability of the backup satellite network, and establishes, during...