ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,923, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Verification of user equipment location in non-terrestrial network" was invented by Avinash Shrivastava (Telangana State, India) and Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for verifying a user equipment (UE) location in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) are disclosed. In some embodiments, such techniques may involve receiving location data of the target UE; obtaining one or more locations of one or more other UEs that are within a sidelink communication range of the target UE; receiving sidelink measurements obtained by the on...