ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,246, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ALTAMIRA TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Mclean, Va.).

"Tool for fixed and mobile satellite operations" was invented by Matthew C. Evans (Warrenton, Va.), Jonathan T. Hart (Warrenton, Va.), Isaac T. Nelson (Warrenton, Va.) and Michael J. Beeler (Warrenton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite communications link method operated on a computer system configured with machine learning capability for maximization of satellite link resources and minimization of obstacles to produce a maximized satellite communication link."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/351,238.

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