ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,412, issued on March 17, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Tracking receiver with integrated phase calibration and method" was invented by Christopher A. Rose (Braselton, Ga.), Brian D. Chandler (Atlanta), David E. Sinyard (Sugar Hill, Ga.) and Charles M. Luke (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of the disclosure relates to satellite tracking. The system may comprise a tracking receiver that includes a first analog-to-digital (A/D) converter coupled between a sum input and a digital signal processor (DSP), a second A/D converter coupled between a difference input and the DSP, and a calibra...