US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 23 for "Radio-frequency (RF) gateway redundancy schemes for satellite communication networks" (Maryland, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,340, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Radio-frequency (RF) gateway redundancy schemes for satellite communication networks" was invented by Satyajit Roy (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Rajeev Oza (Boyds, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency (RF) redundancy method includes designating a plurality of RF gateways as initial primary RF gateways and designating an additional RF gateway as an initial backup RF gateway for the satellite communication system. A fault condition is detected in a first initial primary RF gateway, and a first switchover process is performed to switch the...