US Patent Issued to Viasat on March 3 for "Determining an attenuation environment of a satellite communication terminal" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,902, issued on March 3, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Determining an attenuation environment of a satellite communication terminal" was invented by Ramanamurthy V. Darapu (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Ian A. Cleary (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques and apparatuses relate to determining an attenuation environment surrounding a satellite terminal in a satellite communication system. The satellite terminal may receive signals from an auxiliary satellite system, and determine aspects of an attenuation environment that may affect communications with a communications satellite system. For example, ...