US Patent Issued to AST & Science on Nov. 3 for "System and method for high throughput fractionated satellites (HTFS) for direct connectivity to and from end user devices and terminals using flight formations of small or very small satellites" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,792, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AST & Science LLC (Miami).

"System and method for high throughput fractionated satellites (HTFS) for direct connectivity to and from end user devices and terminals using flight formations of small or very small satellites" was invented by Abel Avellan (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Sriram Jayasimha (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command relay satellite, the satellites...