US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Sept. 8 for "Relay-assisted high-capacity satellite feeder links with integrated line-of-sight MIMO RF and optical channels via HAPS" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,272, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Relay-assisted high-capacity satellite feeder links with integrated line-of-sight MIMO RF and optical channels via HAPS" was invented by Sayed Hasan Hariq (Germantown, Md.) and Rohit Iyer Seshadri (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing satellite communications via a relay-assisted hybrid radio frequency/free-space-optical (RF/FSO) ground-satellite link. A high-altitude platform station (HAPS) splits the ground-to-satellite link into a ground-to-HAPS line-of-sight (LoS) multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO...