US Patent Issued to Viasat on March 24 for "Methods and systems for mitigating interference with a nearby satellite" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,893, issued on March 24, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for mitigating interference with a nearby satellite" was invented by Lance B. Diamond (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Donald L. Runyon (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an antenna system is described. The antenna system includes a primary antenna on an aircraft. The primary antenna is mechanically steerable and has an asymmetric antenna beam pattern with a narrow beamwidth axis and a wide beamwidth axis at boresight. The antenna system also includes a secondary antenna on the aircraft, the secondary antenna including an ...