H04B 7/18528
Satellite systems for providing two-way communications service to a network of fixed
Official title: {Satellite systems for providing two-way communications service to a network of fixed stations, i.e. fixed satellite service or very small aperture terminal [VSAT] system}
H04B7/18528 (Satellite systems for providing two-way communications service to a network of fixed) appears on 230 US grants and 230 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Beam super surge methods and apparatus for small geostationary (GEO) communication satellites22 Sep 2026US 12,744,587 B2Astranis Space Technologies Corp.
- Dynamic frequency shift to mitigate noise figure (NF) degradation17 Feb 2026US 12,556,268 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Spacecraft control system, spacecraft control method, and server device10 Feb 2026US 12,545,436 B2Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.
- Satellite system and method for geolocating a radiofrequency transmitter20 Jan 2026US 12,531,632 B2Thales
- Reliable link performance for cellular internet of things and new radio in non-terrestrial networks13 Jan 2026US 12,526,039 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Dual feeder plus inter-satellite link antenna system25 Jun 2026US 2026/0180674 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Beam super surge methods and apparatus for small geostationary (geo) communication satellites12 Feb 2026US 2026/0046018 A1Astranis Space Technologies Corp.
- Vsat demodulator architecture for beam hopping satellite systems12 Feb 2026US 2026/0046087 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
- Multi-coordination for non-terrestrial generated enhanced antenna arrays4 Dec 2025US 2025/0373324 A1T-Mobile Innovations LLC
- Bandwidth prediction using machine learning23 Oct 2025US 2025/0330663 A1Hughes Network Systems, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multipoint communication system having polling and reservation schemes186US 4,742,512 ANEC Corporation · 1988
- Combined interference cancellation with FEC decoding for high spectral efficiency satellite communications182US 6,671,338 B1Hughes Electronics Corporation · 2003
- Random access communication system with scheduled data transmission and asynchronous contention scheduling133US 4,774,707 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988
- Hitless ultra small aperture terminal satellite communication network133US 5,379,320 ASouthern California Edison Company · 1995
- Method and apparatus for displaying positions of home network appliances126US 7,607,091 B2LG Electronics Inc. · 2009