ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,433, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Allocating transmission power to client devices in a communications network" was invented by Nicholas G. Berndsen (Parker, Colo.) and Michail K. Tsatsanis (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for allocating transmission power in a communications network that are based in part on fairness considerations. The disclosed technologies factor the needs and requirements of individual client devices (e.g. subscribers or users) into the process for allocating transmission power using a satisfaction metric. The ...