ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,557, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatuses and methods for base stations with uptilt antennas for aerial vehicles" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Chiranjib Saha (Lakeside, Calif.), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur Ravi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication at a base station of a mobile network, comprising transmitting system information corresponding to a...