ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,700, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Communication in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by 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: "Apparatus and method for communication in non-terrestrial networks are provided. Downlink transmissions are received (400) from one or more non-terrestrial nodes. Signal strengths and/or signal quality of the transmissions are measured (402) from the one or more non-terrestrial nodes. Transitions between line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight states regar...