US Patent Issued to Lynk Global on Oct. 14 for "Orbital or other non-terrestrial base station preemption and/or replacement upon terrestrial base station incapacity or failure" (District Of Columbia, New Jersey, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,928, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lynk Global Inc. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Orbital or other non-terrestrial base station preemption and/or replacement upon terrestrial base station incapacity or failure" was invented by Tyghe Robert Speidel (Washington), Mahmoud Khafagy (Fairfax, Va.) and Stephen A. Wilkus (Middletown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for providing backup network services in a communications network used by mobile terminals such as cellular telephones. The method includes receiving information regarding a terrestrial base station of the communications network and, using a non-terrestrial ...