ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,619, issued on March 17, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Channel state information acquisition for line-of-sight MIMO feeder links in multibeam satellite systems" was invented by Bassel F. Beidas (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations describe a method including: receiving, by multiple receivers of multiple gateways of a ground receiver system, from multiple transmitters of a satellite over a downlink of a LoS MIMO feeder link, multiple RF signals; obtaining, at the ground receiver system, from the RF signals, preamble signals and pilot signals including first sequences of...