US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 19 for "Airspace surveillance using a satellite network" (Canadian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,221, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Airspace surveillance using a satellite network" was invented by Jeff Apcar (Willoughby, Australia), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for tracking aircraft using a satellite network. An example method includes receiving ADS-B messages from multiple aircraft; determining that at least one of the ADS-B messages satisfies at least one condition; and in response to determining that at least one of the ADS-B mes...