US Patent Issued to AST & Science on Aug. 26 for "Satellite radio access network (SAT RAN) beam and gateway seamless handover" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,395, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AST & Science LLC (Miami).

"Satellite radio access network (SAT RAN) beam and gateway seamless handover" was invented by Zhi Zhong Yu (Reading, Great Britain), Federico Pedro Fawzi (Midland, Texas) and Abel Avellan (Coral Gables, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LEO satellite communication system is in communication with a first setting satellite having a first field of view including a first plurality of cells, and a second rising satellite having a second field of view including a second plurality of cells. The first and second satellites have an overlapping field of view having an overl...