US Patent Issued to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS on June 23 for "Satellite communication system and method for managing emergency messaging services" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,663, issued on June 23, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Satellite communication system and method for managing emergency messaging services" was invented by Lin-Nan Lee (Potomac, Md.) and Liping Chen (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing emergency messaging services is disclosed. The system receives request for transmitting emergency message from user equipment (UE) to geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) satellite. Further, the system determines current location information of the UE. The system determines satellite location of the GEO satellite in proximity to...