ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,783, issued on April 8, was assigned to GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Neighbor list and beam management for ATG systems" was invented by Heinz A. Miranda (Cary, Ill.), Michael H. Baker (Elmhurst, Ill.), James P. Michels (Lake Zurich, Ill.) and Yong Liu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may facilitate initial establishment and/or handover of an air-to-ground (ATG) communication link between an aircraft and a ground-based cellular communication network (e.g., a 5G network). The systems and methods may be particularly applicable for an aircraft having a user equipment (UE) antenna that uses n...