ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,644, issued on March 25, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitating aerial to surface heterogenous communications in advanced networks" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating auto-pilot aerial to surface heterogenous communications in advanced networks is provided herein. Operations of a system include receiving, via a receiver, a wireless signal that originated from a device located above a ground surface, the network equipment is located below the ground surface. The operations can also include transforming, via a converter, the wireless signal into a...