US Patent Issued to AT&T Technical Services on Sept. 9 for "Methods, systems, and devices for identifying an aerial base station in mobile networks" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,294, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for identifying an aerial base station in mobile networks" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first extended cell global identifier (ECGI) of an aerial base station (ABS), determining a location of the ABS, and determining that a terrestrial base station (TBS) is within a distance threshold of the location of the ABS. Further embodiments include providing the first ECGI of the ABS to the TBS, and providin...