US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 8 for "Methods and apparatus to facilitate access link and ATG-based message relaying" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,544, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus to facilitate access link and ATG-based message relaying" was invented by Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating reusing an air-to-ground communication system to support message-relaying for UEs in remote areas are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a user equipment...