US Patent Issued to Space Exploration Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for mapping geographic sub-areas to satellite-based base station platforms in a cellular network" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,605, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"Systems and methods for mapping geographic sub-areas to satellite-based base station platforms in a cellular network" was invented by Brian Dunn (San Carlos, Calif.) and Owen Chiaventone (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for mapping geographic sub-areas of a ground area to cells of a radio access network (RAN) implemented by a plurality of satellites can perform steps including one or more of: receiving, from a first satellite, connection data indicating that a first UE has connected to the RAN via a first beam of th...