ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,832, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to All.Space Networks Ltd. (Reading, Great Britain).

"Satellite communications network, satellite terminal and operation method" was invented by Brian Murphy Billman (Baltimore), Jeremiah P. Turpin (Linthicum, Md.) and John Finney (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a satellite communications network, the method comprising: receiving from a satellite terminal a message; and storing the message contents in a satellite network database, the message indicating one or both of: (i) a list of communication satellites which are blocked to a satellite antenna or a portion of the f...