ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,377, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for calibration of satellite communication antennas" was invented by David Phillips (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for calibration of satellite communication antennas are disclosed. An example aerial vehicle includes an antenna; an attitude sensor; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to at least identify a first angular position of the antenna associated with a peak power of a signal received ...