US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 22 for "Communication satellite system, earth-side control facility, ground facility, artificial satellite, communication ground center, and transmission route search device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,588, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication satellite system, earth-side control facility, ground facility, artificial satellite, communication ground center, and transmission route search device" was invented by Hisayuki Mukae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communication satellite system (10), communication satellites (20) that fly on respective orbital planes such as an orbit (A), an orbit (B), and an orbit (C) each include a fore-aft communication device for communicating with other communication satellites (20) flying in front of and behind that communication satellite (...