ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,987, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skylo Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and satellite system for scheduling forward link resource allocations and return link resource allocations of a satellite link" was invented by Soham Dhiren Desai (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Nuttall (Mountain View, Calif.) and Meghna Agrawal (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems of scheduling wireless communication through a satellite link are disclosed. One method includes determining a forward link quality of a forward link and a return link quality of a return link, determining a forward da...