ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,359, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Tracking area code transmission in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Ming-Hung Tao (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Quan Kuang (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a base station, comprising a transceiver; and circuitry which, in operation, controls the transceiver to serve a cell associated with a first tracking area code, TAC, periodically transmit, in system information, ...