US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Feb. 24 for "Prediction and avoidance of radio frequency interference" (Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,809, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Prediction and avoidance of radio frequency interference" was invented by Vincent A. Pascente (Aurora, Colo.), Varian S. Little (Aurora, Colo.) and Jared B. Dorny (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for prediction and avoidance of RF interference for a satellite from one or more of resident space objects (RSOs) includes: obtaining orbit data and transmission data for the satellite and the plurality of RSOs; calculating a visibility window; performing comparison of transmission parameters; calculating an orientation of each of the RSOs...