US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "Device-driven mobility for non-terrestrial communication networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,279, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device-driven mobility for non-terrestrial communication networks" was invented by Hassan Sipra (San Jose, Calif.), Sathish Karunakaran (Los Altos, Calif.), Sharath Ananth (Cupertino, Calif.), Dutt Kalapatapu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ankur Jain (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining that a user device is located within a specified geographical region, and determining that the user device has an active subscription with a terrestrial network operator operating a terrestrial network within the geographical region, th...