ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,168, issued on July 29, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for handling satellite switching in a wireless communication system" was invented by Yi-Hsuan Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Meng-Hui Ou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for handling satellite switching in a wireless communication system, wherein a method of a User Equipment (UE) comprises receiving a System Information Block 19 (SIB19) at a first timing, wherein the UE is in Radio Resource Control (RRC)_IDLE or RRC_INACTIVE at the first timing, and determining to init...