US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Geofencing for satellite communication in the absence of terrestrial networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,324, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Geofencing for satellite communication in the absence of terrestrial networks" was invented by Kannan Muthuraman (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Gurdarshan Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ronald Blumstein (San Jose, Calif.), Ricky Tai (Milpitas, Calif.), Murthy Vempati (San Jose, Calif.), Subrahmanyam Anand Mantravadi Venkata (San Diego), Francesco Grilli (La Jolla, Calif.) and Udayan Bhawnani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of geofencing for satellite communication performed by a UE, the method comprising obtaining a first region file comprising a plu...