ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,438, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Neighboring cell relationship configuration method and apparatus applicable to satellite network" was invented by Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China), Dali Qin (Hangzhou, China) and Yinggang Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example neighboring cell relationship configuration methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes: generating a neighboring cell status function identifier by a satellite, where the neighboring cell status function identifier can be used to indicate an inactive state of at...