ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,960, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Use of cell switch assistance information for SSB searching during satellite switching" was invented by Frank Frederiksen (Aalborg, Denmark), Jeroen Wigard (Aalborg, Denmark), Enric Juan (Aalborg, Denmark) and Jedrzej Stanczak (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE, connected using a current cell served by a first satellite to a BS, receives information from the BS including assistance information for a cell switch from the current cell to a cell served by a second satellite. The information is received before a stop time indicating when ...