Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
51 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to AST SpaceMobile, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
51
50 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
10
Against 17 in 2024 and 13 in 2023
Applications published
58
12 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Telecommunications33
Transport9
Digital communication4
Measurement3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
AST & Science, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
17 publishedAST & Science, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
41 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 25, 2025 | 12,483,327 | Selection, diversity combining or satellite MIMO to mitigate scintillation and/or near-terrestrial multipath to user devices | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Aug 26, 2025 | 12,401,395 | Satellite radio access network (SAT RAN) beam and gateway seamless handover | Digital communication | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jul 8, 2025 | 12,352,877 | Dynamic triangulation of active user equipment location via satellite radio access technology (RAT) | Digital communication | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 22, 2025 | 12,280,894 | Low earth orbit mechanical deployable structure | Transport | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 12,267,116 | Mutual coupling based calibration | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 12,263,962 | Momentum wheels and reaction wheels for objects in space | Transport | AST & Science, LLC |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 12,261,678 | AOCS system to maintain planarity for space digital beam forming using carrier phase differential GPS, IMU and magnet torques on large space structures | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Mar 11, 2025 | 12,250,062 | Method and system for inactive and active beam transition in a satellite radio access network | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Feb 25, 2025 | 12,237,908 | Network access management | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jan 14, 2025 | 12,200,508 | Adaptive taper selection for beamforming | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0326501 | LOW EARTH ORBIT MECHANICAL DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURE | Transport | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 2025/0247144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INACTIVE AND ACTIVE BEAM TRANSITION IN A SATELLITE RADIO ACCESS NETWORK | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jul 17, 2025 | 2025/0233649 | NETWORK ACCESS MANAGEMENT | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0184108 | DYNAMIC TIME DIVISION DUPLEX (DTDD) ACCESS FOR SATELLITE RAN | Digital communication | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0183999 | PHASE ARRAY ROUTING CONNECTIVITY | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0183996 | GEOLOCATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES USING SPACEBORNE PHASED ARRAYS | Measurement | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0119208 | SYSTEM WITH MODULATED SIGNAL TO COMPENSATE FREQUENCY ERRORS IN LTE SIGNALS | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0119204 | SATCOM GSM SOLUTION DIRECTLY COMMUNICATE WITH GSM PHONES | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0119203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT FRACTIONATED SATELLITES (HTFS) FOR DIRECT CONNECTIVITY TO AND FROM END USER DEVICES AND TERMINALS USING FLIGHT FORMATIONS OF SMALL OR VERY SMALL SATELLITES | Telecommunications | AST & Science, LLC |
| Feb 13, 2025 | 2025/0051039 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR STRUCTURES IN SPACE | Transport | AST & Science, LLC |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Telecommunications 15 · Transport 5 · Measurement 1 · Digital communication 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.