ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,761, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Orbit-aware routing" was invented by Patrick Denis Lincoln (Woodside, Calif.), Steven M. Dawson (Woodside, Calif.), Phillip A Porras (Cupertino, Calif.), Keith M. Skinner (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Martin W. Fong (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite orbiting the Earth may perform orbit-aware routing by receiving a data packet, determining whether a final destination plane of the data packet is different from an orbital plane of the satellite, in response to determining that the final destination plane of the data packet is diff...