US Patent Issued to Viasat on Dec. 16 for "Multi-static synthetic aperture radar using low earth orbit collection" (California, Colorado, Tennessee, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,662, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Multi-static synthetic aperture radar using low earth orbit collection" was invented by Craig A. Miller (Carlsbad, Calif.), David D. Greenidge (Longmont, Colo.), Kenneth V. Buer (Bluff City, Tenn.) and David J. Hancharik (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-static synthetic aperture radar using beamformed illumination beams and multiple collection satellites is described. An illumination satellite may be in first orbit and multiple collection satellites may be in a second orbit. The illumination satellite may transmit beam signals (e.g., communi...