ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,666, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Edge computing system" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computing system includes: a geostationary satellite having a computer and a cloud data center mounted thereon; a low earth orbiting satellite constellation including a plurality of communication satellites; and a ground data center deployed on the ground. In the low earth orbiting satellite constellation, an annular communication network is formed by the ability of each communication satellite of a plurality of communication satellites that fly on the same orb...