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| 12372048 | 7/29/2025 | Blue Origin Manufacturing | Huntsville, AL | Seal for gimbaling and/or fixed rocket engine nozzles, and associated systems and methods | Seals for gimbaling and/or fixed rocket engine nozzles, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative rocket propulsion system includes a rocket engine having an exhaust nozzle, a seal plate carried by the exhaust nozzle, and a seal engaged with the seal plate. The seal includes at least one support, multiple pivotable first flaps, carried by the at least one support and positioned to contact the seal plate, and multiple pivotable second flaps, with an individual second flap positioned to shield a corresponding individual first flap. At least one forcing element is operati... |
| 12374772 | 7/29/2025 | Space Exploration Technologies | Hawthorne, CA | User terminal housing | In one example, a housing for an antenna assembly is described. The housing may include a lower enclosure configured to be coupled to an upper structure to define an internal region. The housing may also include an internal cover configured to be coupled to the lower enclosure to create a first chamber and a second chamber within the internal region.... |
| 12374773 | 7/29/2025 | Space Exploration Technologies | Hawthorne, CA | Pan/tilt assembly for antenna apparatus | In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a pan/tilt assembly for an antenna apparatus having a housing enclosing antenna components and a leg extending from the housing includes a first actuator for rotating a first gear, a second actuator for rotating a second gear, a third gear coupled to the leg and engaged by the first and second gears, and a tee having a first portion substantially transverse to a second portion, wherein the first portion has a first end rotatably received within the first gear and a second end rotatably received within the second gear, and wherein the second portion ... |
| 12375163 | 7/29/2025 | VIASAT | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | In-transport multi-channel media delivery | Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one ... |
| 12375167 | 7/29/2025 | OQ Technology S..r.l. | Wasserbillig, | Method and system for non-terrestrial cellular wireless communication networks | In an embodiment, a method for estimating a location of a terminal device of a non-terrestrial cellular data communication network, where the non-terrestrial cellular data communication network has one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations moving along a respective flight trajectory and the terminal device, includes the following. At the terminal device, performing a random wake-up and a blind acquisition of a carrier that is made available by a respective one of one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations to attach the terminal device to the non-terrestrial cellular data communica... |
| 12375169 | 7/29/2025 | EUTELSAT SA | Issy-les-Moulineaux, | Methods for the transmission of data between a plurality of resource-constrained devices and a non-geostationary satellite and associated system | A method for the transmission to a non-geostationary satellite of data, each device storing data, carried out by each device, includes performing successive Doppler shift estimations including receiving, by the device, a signal from the satellite comprising at least one elevation emission criterion, performing a Doppler shift estimation based on the frequency of the received signal; estimating a Doppler rate of frequency change to obtain a position of the device relative to the position of the satellite, defining a transmission window during which the position of the device relative to positio... |
| 12375311 | 7/29/2025 | VIASAT | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA | System, method and apparatus for subscriber user interfaces | Methods, apparatus, and systems manage use of shared network resources among subscribers to a data communication service. In some implementations, a first metric is computed representing a subscriber's use of the shared network resources. A second metric may also be computed that represents the amount of network congestion of the shared network resources. Data derived from the first metric and the second metric may then be presented to the subscriber. The data may be transmitted to the subscriber over a network and/or the data may be displayed to the subscriber on an electronic display.... |
| 12375988 | 7/29/2025 | Space Exploration Technologies | Hawthorne, CA | Low latency schedule-driven handovers | Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for low latency handovers. An example method can include receiving, by a user terminal associated with a cell served by a satellite, a schedule of communications between the user terminal and one or more satellites, wherein the one or more satellites comprises the satellite and a different satellite, and wherein the schedule of communications is obtained by the user terminal from the satellite; requesting, based on the schedule, a handover from a beam of the satellite to a different beam of one of the satellite or the different satellite;... |
| 12376138 | 7/29/2025 | Space Exploration Technologies | Hawthorne, CA | System and method of providing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme | A method for downlink link adaptation includes receiving, from a satellite and at a user terminal, a first data packet data unit according to a first downlink modulation and coding scheme (MCS), computing error vector magnitude data associated with the first data packet data unit, generating, based on one or more of the error vector magnitude data, user terminal signal-to-noise-ratio feedback based on a constant times a previous user terminal signal-to-noise-ratio and a current user terminal signal-to-noise-ratio, and transmitting an uplink packet data unit having a downlink block error rate a... |
| 12376143 | 7/29/2025 | Space Exploration Technologies | Hawthorne, CA | System and method of providing a medium access control scheduler | A method of operating an uplink scheduler as part of a medium access control scheduler on a satellite includes selecting, from a plurality of user terminals, a first number of zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, selecting, from the plurality of user terminals, a second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals from the plurality of user terminals, binning the second number of non-zero-bandwidth request user terminals into a plurality of bins based on a respective bandwidth requirement for each non-zero-bandwidth request user terminal and based ... |
