US Patent Issued to AST & Science on April 21 for "Satellite communication system with gateway diversity" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,760, issued on April 21, was assigned to AST & Science LLC (Miami).

"Satellite communication system with gateway diversity" was invented by Zhi Zhong Yu (Reading, Great Britain) and Federico Pedro Fawzi (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides a gateway system that enables satellite communication with user equipment (UE). A system includes multiple gateways, where each gateway includes processing devices, baseband units, a gateway channel routing block, and a set of antennas for communicating with a constellation of orbiting satellites. The gateways include a primary gateway and a diversity gateway. A s...