US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 16 for "Resource and mission aware power management for non-geosynchronous orbit smallsats" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,025, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Resource and mission aware power management for non-geosynchronous orbit smallsats" was invented by Satyajit Roy (Gaithersburg, Md.) and George Joseph Choquette (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automated satellite power management (ASPM) for a satellite communication system having a constellation of non-geosynchronous orbit (NGSO) small satellites (smallsats). The techniques can be resource- and/or mission-aware. Embodiments control power used by the constellation by evaluating subsets of the NGSO smallsats ...