US Patent Issued to Space Exploration Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Timing half-duplex transmissions" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,567, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"Timing half-duplex transmissions" was invented by Peter J. Worters (San Carlos, Calif.), Martin S. McCormick (Studio City, Calif.) and Andrew G. Whitlow (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for timing transmissions in a wireless communication system. An example method can include determining, at a satellite, a maximum round-trip propagation delay associated with one or more user terminals of a plurality of user terminals, determining, based on the maximum round-trip propaga...