ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,573, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Enhanced multi-satellite downlink connectivity" was invented by Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for enhanced multi-satellite downlink connectivity. Each of two or more extraterrestrial base stations communicate data in a downlink to a single user equipment (UE). Encoding each downlink with a different and orthogonal code permits the re-use of at least partially overlapping frequency resources without intra-channel...