US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Sept. 30 for "Diversity gain for space mobile systems" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,968, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Diversity gain for space mobile systems" was invented by Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.) and Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to aspects herein, methods and a non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer instructions for macro diversity-based handover between low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The method begins with receiving, at a first extraterrestrial access point and a second extraterrestrial access point at least one first uplink communication from a UE. Each extraterrestrial access point is loca...