US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Systems and techniques to support cell identification for satellite wireless access" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,196, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and techniques to support cell identification for satellite wireless access" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Haris Zisimopoulos (London), Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes (Swindon, Great Britain) and Amer Catovic (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to support call routing and location for a user equipment (UE) with satellite wireless access to a serving PLMN. The UE sends a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to a network node, such as a P-CSCF, that includes an indication of satellite access fo...