ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,667, issued on June 23, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).
"Method for establishing free-space data transmission channels" was invented by Sergio Feo Arenis (Taufkirchen, Germany), Philipp Helle (Taufkirchen, Germany), Kevin Shortt (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Carsten Strobel (Taufkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing free-space data transmission channels between a movable network node and a spatially fixed network node includes collecting dynamic position information regarding movable network nodes and static position information relating to spatially fixed nodes, calculating paramet...