ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,225, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Data collection reporting for non-terrestrial network cells" was invented by Rajeev Kumar (San Diego), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego) and Shankar Krishnan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for data collection for non-terrestrial networks (NTN). One aspect provides a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes transmitting an indication of a capability of the UE to connec...