US Patent Issued to VIASAT on April 21 for "Satellite communication with modularized mobile earth stations (MESs)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,763, issued on April 21, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Satellite communication with modularized mobile earth stations (MESs)" was invented by Jordan M. Corey (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jimmy Tran (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a plurality of MESs arranged at different locations and operating as a unit to communicate with one or more satellites. One of the MESs is configured in a leader mode and each remaining MES of the MESs is configured in a follower mode based on a result of an auto-negotiation. In the leader mode, the one MES manages combining/dividing of satellite-relate...