US Patent Issued to Space Exploration Technologies on July 28 for "Systems and methods for detecting cellular service access requests from terrestrial user equipment at a satellite" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,500, issued on July 28, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting cellular service access requests from terrestrial user equipment at a satellite" was invented by Arthur Torosyan (Burbank, Calif.), Ramakrishna Akella (San Diego) and Martin S. McCormick (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite computer system is configured to detect access request signals from terrestrial user equipment (UE). The satellite includes an antenna configured to send and receive signals to the UE on a radio access network (RAN) via beams that define cells of the RAN. The...