US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Dec. 30 for "System and methods for geographic and time-based control of satellite network connections to user devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,599, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"System and methods for geographic and time-based control of satellite network connections to user devices" was invented by Mehul Jayant Shah (Sammamish, Wash.) and Suresh Thanneeru (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein provide systems, methods, and media for terrestrially controlling whether user devices are allowed to or preventing from accessing and utilizing a non-terrestrial network. Using geofencing and time-based threshold techniques, a terrestrial network component determines and control whether user devices within ...