ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,192, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mobile device orientation guidance for satellite-based communications" was invented by Francesco Grilli (La Jolla, Calif.), Kannan Muthuraman (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Udayan Bhawnani (San Diego), Jonathan Kies (Encinitas, Calif.), Manmeet Singh (Gurgaon, India), Junsheng Han (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Carl Hardin (Encinitas, Calif.), Vanitha Aravamudhan Kumar (San Diego), Nirupama Locanindi (San Diego), Vinay Paradkar (Broomfield, Colo.) and Victor Kulik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a mobile device may determine a set of t...