US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Mission critical data delivery booster drones for satellite data centers" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,498, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mission critical data delivery booster drones for satellite data centers" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for amplifying a mission critical workload to a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite using a booster drone, responsive to receiving a first request to amplify a mission critical workload to a LEO satellite, a processor initiates a targeted service instance. A processor obtains a level of mission criticality ...