US Patent Issued to Astranis Space Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Beam super surge methods and apparatus for small geostationary (GEO) communication satellites" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,587, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Astranis Space Technologies Corp. (San Francisco).

"Beam super surge methods and apparatus for small geostationary (GEO) communication satellites" was invented by John Gedmark (San Francisco), Siamak Ebadi (San Francisco), Ryan McLinko (San Francisco), Steve Joseph (San Francisco), Robert Kummerer (San Francisco), Adam Bily (Oakland, Calif.) and Kagan Topalli (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate satellites using a Software-Defined Radio ("SDR") system. In one example, a geostationary (GEO) satellite includes an antenna system including multiple anten...