US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on May 26 for "Extended beamforming for satellite communication" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,809, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Extended beamforming for satellite communication" was invented by Neal David Becker (Olney, Md.) and Udaya Bhaskar (North Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In beamforming with an antenna for satellite communications, the antenna includes an array of radiating elements. The beamforming method includes: formulating a matrix based on responses from all elements of the antenna to each of a number of users of a first satellite; augmenting the matrix by adding responses from the elements of the antenna to other users served by a different satelli...