US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Dec. 16 for "Dynamic beam blanking and spectrum reservation for direct to cell mobile satellite communications" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,663, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Dynamic beam blanking and spectrum reservation for direct to cell mobile satellite communications" was invented by Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.), Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.) and Ferdinand Bacay Saulon (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dynamic beam blanking in a network including an aerospace access point is provided. Multiple antenna beams may be provided in addition to a primary antenna beam. First a determination of an antenna beamwidth of a primary antenna beam is made. The antenna beamwidth is based on a usage thres...