ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,457, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Inroute stream error rate shedding" was invented by Yeqing Tang (North Potomac, Md.), Raghu Narasimhan (Germantown, Md.), Francis Selvadoss (Damascus, Md.) and Venkat Ganesan (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for intelligent shedding of inroutes determined to have high burst error rates. Embodiments operate in context of a multi-spot beam satellite communication system that uses time-division multiple access (TDMA) communication protocols and inroute groups. Burst error rates of inroutes can be monitored ...