US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Enhanced machine type communications (MTC) for non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,677, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced machine type communications (MTC) for non-terrestrial networks (NTN)" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Weidong Yang (Beijing), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Sigen Ye (San Diego), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Chunxuan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided to enhance communications for NTN. In some aspects, a base station (BS) comprises a processor configured to schedule an uplink...