ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,701, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques to handle interruption in satellite-based communications" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating interruption handling in satellite-based communications are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes determining an interruption for a satellite-based communication link based in part on UE location information and blockage information of an obstruction that blocks ...