US Patent Issued to Viasat on July 7 for "Lensing using lower earth orbit repeaters" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,667, issued on July 7, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Lensing using lower earth orbit repeaters" was invented by David J. Hancharik (Norcross, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for communication operations are described. A first satellite may be in a first orbit, and a set of second satellites may be in second orbits that are lower than the first orbit. The second satellites may detect signal components of a signal originating from a geographic area and relay the respective signal components to the first satellite. A beamformer coupled with the first satellite may form a beam associated...