ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,262, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating satellite assignment instructions for fulfilling connection requests during a mass gathering event" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes obtaining satellite information associated with a plurality of satellites, and using the satellite information to determine physical parameters associated with the satellites as the satellites pass over geographica...