ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,737, issued on April 8, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Terrestrial or non-terrestrial wireless communication systems" was invented by Thi Uyen Ly Dang (Erlangen, Germany), Thomas Heyn (Erlangen, Germany), Alexander Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany), Leszek Raschkowski (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin) and Stephan Jaeckel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system including: at least a first terrestrial or non-terrestrial base station, the first base station configured to generate one or more beams for covering at least a first beam coverage are...