US Patent Issued to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE on Aug. 5 for "Efficient tracking area update in LEO-NTN" (British, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,619, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Efficient tracking area update in LEO-NTN" was invented by Abhishek Roy (San Jose, Calif.), Chia-Chun Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pradeep Jose (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mehmet Kunt (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites orbit around the earth at a high speed (mobility), but over a predictable or deterministic orbit. In this invention, an efficient mechanism to include a list of multiple Tracking Area Codes (TAC List) in LEO-NTN is proposed for efficient tracking area update (TAU). Each cell broadcasts a ...