US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 17 for "System for maintaining satellites in orbital configuration to mitigate interference with geosynchronous satellites" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,266, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for maintaining satellites in orbital configuration to mitigate interference with geosynchronous satellites" was invented by Michael Thomas Hicks (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many satellites comprising a constellation are arranged in non-geosynchronous orbits (NGSO) forming a regular lattice arrangement in terms of right ascension ascending node (RAAN) and mean anomaly (M), with the orbital parameters specified by the position in the lattice. A set of satellites form a traffic lane having a nonzero RAAN/M slope. Lattice arrangement...