ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,160, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Accessing a satellite communication system and a land based wireless communication system" was invented by Hailong Yang (San Francisco), Alex Yee Kit Ho (San Jose, Calif.), Guojie Dong (Cupertino, Calif.), Kexin Ma (San Diego), Li Sheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Muthukumaran Dhanapal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rajesh Ambati (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for a user equipment (UE) to determine to use a shared resource such as an antenna to access a land based wireless communication system or a satellite communication sys...