ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,029, issued on May 12, was assigned to HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Dynamic bandwidth allocation and jitter handling in multi-tiered satellite networks" was invented by Xuehong Yang (Rockville, Md.), Fernando Secali De Oliveira Filho (Germantown, Md.), Yuanlai Zhou (Germantown, Md.), Yeqing Tang (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Venkatasubramaniam Ganesan (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic bandwidth allocation and jitter handling in multi-tiered satellite networks such as virtual communication networks and/or physical communication networks. The system includes bandwidth distributin...