US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 20 for "Scheduling satellite data transmissions using differing sets of ground stations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,767, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scheduling satellite data transmissions using differing sets of ground stations" was invented by Deepak Vasisht (Redmond, Wash.) and Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein describes transmitting data from a satellite using a ground station configured to both transmit and receive, and a set of ground stations configured to receive data from a satellite. An orbit of the satellite is determined over a schedule period and subset of ground stations configured to receive data and not transmit data to s...