ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,175, issued on June 2, was assigned to EUTELSAT SA (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods for the transmission of data between a resource constrained device and a non-geostationary satellite and associated method" was invented by Antonin Hirsch (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Geoffroy Brichler (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) and Kevin Choi (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the transmission of a region-specific piece of information from at least one non-geostationary satellite to at least one ground-based device, the method being carried out by the non-geostationary satellite and including emitting ...