H04B 7/18521
Systems of inter linked satellites, i.e. inter satellite service
Official title: {Systems of inter linked satellites, i.e. inter satellite service (for optical links between satellites H04B10/118)}
H04B7/18521 (Systems of inter linked satellites, i.e. inter satellite service) appears on 413 US grants and 430 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 413
- Published applications
- 430
- Assignees
- 214
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Communication satellite system, earth-side control facility, ground facility, artificial satellite, communication ground center, and transmission route search device22 Sep 2026US 12,744,588 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Edge deployment of cloud-originated machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads25 Aug 2026US 12,717,650 B2Armada Systems Inc.
- Position-based access to satellite networks for satellite terminals18 Aug 2026US 12,712,631 B2ViaSat, Inc.
- Use of one or more observation satellites for target identification11 Aug 2026US 12,705,881 B2Unseenlabs
- Edge computing system11 Aug 2026US 12,706,666 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Transmitter for direct-to-device connectivity via a satellite swarm1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303160 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Position-based access to satellite networks for satellite terminals17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280686 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Single-direction crosslinks in satellite communication systems10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269932 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Methods and systems for mobile communications in the presence of discontinuous coverage by non-terrestrial networks10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269933 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Interference mitigation across multiple constellations in a satellite communication system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269963 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Satellite communication system287US 6,157,621 ATeledesic LLC · 2000
- Networked satellite and terrestrial cellular radiotelephone systems254US 5,394,561 AMotorola, Inc. · 1995
- Method and system for providing wideband communications to mobile users in a satellite-based network207US 6,339,707 B12002
- Satellite cellular telephone and data communication system182US 5,410,728 AMotorola, Inc. · 1995
- Low-cost multi-mission broadband communications payload158US 6,628,919 B1Hughes Electronics Corporation · 2003