Patents by Inventor Alfredo Vernucci

Alfredo Vernucci has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multibeam satellite communication system and method, and satellite payload for carrying out such a method
    Patent number: 9356685
    Abstract: A satellite communication system including a multibeam satellite for generating a plurality of feeder beams and a plurality of user beams over a region of interest, a plurality of spatially-separated gateway stations for providing feeder links to said multibeam satellite via respective feeder beams; and a control for operating said gateway stations and multibeam satellite such that: in nominal conditions, NGW gateway stations exchange data with K user beams, each of the gateway stations allocating a fraction of its bandwidth to each of the user beams; and in case of fading, data are switched from faded to unfaded gateway stations, whereby none of said user terminals experiences service outage. A method of performing satellite communication using the satellite communication system, and a multibeam communication satellite payload for carrying out the method are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Agence Spatiale Europeenne
    Inventors: Piero Angeletti, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Emiliano Re, Nicolas Jeannin, Alfredo Vernucci
  • Multibeam Satellite Communication System and Method, and Satellite Payload for Carrying Out Such a Method
    Publication number: 20150188623
    Abstract: A satellite communication system including a multibeam satellite for generating a plurality of feeder beams and a plurality of user beams over a region of interest, a plurality of spatially-separated gateway stations for providing feeder links to said multibeam satellite via respective feeder beams; and a control for operating said gateway stations and multibeam satellite such that: in nominal conditions, NGW gateway stations exchange data with K user beams, each of the gateway stations allocating a fraction of its bandwidth to each of the user beams; and in case of fading, data are switched from faded to unfaded gateway stations, whereby none of said user terminals experiences service outage. A method of performing satellite communication using the satellite communication system, and a multibeam communication satellite payload for carrying out the method are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: AGENCE SPATIALE EUROPEENNE
    Inventors: Piero Angeletti, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Emiliano Re, Nicolas Jeannin, Alfredo Vernucci