ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,906, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Find/verify UE provided location by NTN networks" was invented by Phaneendra Cheekatla (Hyderabad, India), Vikrant Singh (Hyderabad, India), Athri Rao (Shimoga, India) and Keerthi Chowdary V (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to communicate with a non-terrestrial network (NTN) with its location verified using a set of encrypted signals from a set of satellites associated with the NTN. In one aspect, a UE receives, from each satellite of a set of satellites, a set of encrypted signals and time information. The UE ...