ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Dynamic inroute reconfiguration in satellite systems" was invented by Murali Regunathan (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for dynamic inroute reconfiguration. A set of factors is selected for use in reconfiguring inroutes in a satellite communication system. A state is defined to represent inroute layouts based on the set of factors. A metric is determined and optimized to obtain a new state representative of a desired inroute layout. The inroute layouts of the satellite communication system are re...