ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,679, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement configuration in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)" was invented by Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego) and Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a first message indicating whether a first neighbor cell measurement is supported without a first measurement gap, when the first neighbor cell and/or a serving cell comprise a non-terrestrial network (NTN) cell. The method also includes receiving a...