ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,910, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"UE location validation for PUR in LEO networks" was invented by Ryan Keating (Chicago), Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark), Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark) and Rapeepat Ratasuk (Inverness, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving, at a user equipment, one or more location related information, where the location related information comprises information based upon location related to one or more satellite; determining, by the user equipment, timing advance, where the determining is at least partially based upon the location related in...