ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,489, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Metasurface integrated non-terrestrial network transcoder with adaptive slicing for dynamic allocation of mesh resources" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada), Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada) and Michael J. Healy (Scituate, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a transcoder with bypass capabilities that can be used to couple non-terrestrial network satellites to user equipment (UEs), including by decoding and reencoding data packets at the packet level for existing Satcom satellites. A met...