ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,402, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Satellite coverage change handling" was invented by Amit Malik (Palatine, Ill.), Liwa Wang (Morris Plains, N.J.), Timothy Curtis (Chandler, Ariz.), Alan Matten (Chicago), Andrew Repoza (Naperville, Ill.) and Zai Chen (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for satellite coverage change handling. Such measures exemplarily include, at a network entity managing a first cell of a mobile network and a second cell of said mobile network, the first cell covering a geographical area, and the second cell covering sai...