US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 9 for "User equipment (UE) and method of use in discontinuous coverage within satellite networks" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,070, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipment (UE) and method of use in discontinuous coverage within satellite networks" was invented by Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai, Japan), Shuichiro Chiba (Sakai, Japan) and Masaki Izumi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE capable of performing communication via a satellite receives a wait range via a first satellite from a first PLMN. In a case that the UE becomes able to perform communication via a second satellite connected to the first PLMN after becoming unable to perform communication via the first satellite, the UE selects the first PLMN, generat...