US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Dec. 23 for "Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,536, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Multi-band hybrid satellite communication systems and methods" was invented by Satyajit Roy (Gaithersburg, Md.) and George Choquette (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a satellite communication system include identifying highly active terminals (HUTs) in a spot beam of a satellite; determining a first ratio of single-band HUTs that operate in a first frequency band only to multi-band HUTs that operate in the first frequency band a second frequency band; and determining a second ratio of outroutes for the first freq...