US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 24 for "Data traffic scaling for communication satellite" (Washington, Arizona, Texas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,272, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data traffic scaling for communication satellite" was invented by Tusher Chakraborty (Bellevue, Wash.), Jayanth Ganesh Shenoy (Katy, Texas), Deepak Vasisht (Champaign, Ill.), Om Jit Singh Chabra (Tucson, Ariz.) and Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network data communication includes, at a terrestrial computing device, detecting one or more beacon signals from a corresponding one or more orbital communication satellites of a constellation of orbital communication satellites. A transmission probabi...