ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,294, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"System for inter-satellite communication" was invented by Christopher Mark Glasnapp (Renton, Wash.) and Drew Carter King (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite constellation provides communication resources, such as optical intersatellite links (ISL), to third-party (3P) satellites. An application programming interface (API) provided by a management system associated with the constellation allows a 3P requestor to determine availability of, and schedule, communication resources. Details about the scheduled communications are returned to ...