ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,941, issued on May 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Neighbor low earth orbit/high altitude platform stations inter-satellite link change and synchronization signal block measurements" was invented by Shahzada Basharat Rasool (Naperville, Ill.), Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark), Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark) and Rafhael Medeiros De Amorim (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus may include identifying, by a network entity, at least one link change corresponding with at least one round trip time (RTT) change, and transmitting, by the network entity, at least one first indic...