ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,060, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for quality of experience driven in-transport communications" was invented by Andrew D. Tirella (Cambridge, Mass.), Gina C. Tuazon-Ayache (San Diego), Shreyas S. Vidyarthi (San Diego), Nobuo Fukaya (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Kevin B. Rennie (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches are described for providing quality of experience (QoE) driven in-transport communications services. For example, in-transit communications services are provided over a network to content consumption devices on one or more transport craft. During a me...