ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,409, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Implementing the idle mode while out of a RAN coverage area" was invented by Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chun Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Chen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Hua Li (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a user equipment (UE) connected to a serving Radio Access Network (RAN) through a serving cell is provided. The serving RAN may include a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN). The method receives, from the serving cell, satellite information regarding a coverage area of the serving RAN. After receiving the satellite informatio...