ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,139, issued on May 27, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network" was invented by David Aaron Claassen (Leesburg, Va.) and Lei Wang (Oak Hill, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and ...