US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 8 for "System for controlling connection of a device to a non-terrestrial network" (Washington, Kansas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,936, issued on April 8, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System for controlling connection of a device to a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Egil Gronstad (Bellevue, Wash.), John Joseph Humbert IV (Olathe, Kan.), Karri M. Kuoppamaki (Kirkland, Wash.), Jun Liu (Sammamish, Wash.), Kun Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Scott Francis Migaldi (Cary, Ill.) and Brian A. Olsen (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system receives orbital information for at least one satellite of a non-terrestrial network. The orbital information includes the location and velocity of the at least one satellite. The system determ...