ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,364, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Collecting UE positioning information in a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Manasa Raghavan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiming Li (Beijing), Xiang Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) configured to collect UE positioning information configured to indicate a location of the UE, wherein the UE is deployed onboard an airplane and report the UE p...