ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,211, issued on April 14, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for forming and allocating beams by frequency sub-bands for an active multi-beam satellite antenna" was invented by Herve Legay (Plaisance du Touch, France), Florian Vidal (Toulouse, France) and Jean-Philippe Fraysse (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating resources in an active multi-beam antenna satellite telecommunications system operating in a given frequency band for a given coverage area wherein a plurality of user terminals is located, the method includes the steps of: decomposing the frequency band into sub-bands su...