US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 2 for "Routing an emergency call made through a non-terrestrial network" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,171, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Routing an emergency call made through a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Mehul Jayant Shah (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for routing an emergency call made through a non-terrestrial network (NTN) include: receiving, by an NTN, from a user equipment (UE), an emergency call; not selecting, by the NTN, a public safety answering point (PSAP) for routing the emergency call; selecting, by the NTN, a packet data network (PDN) gateway (GW) in a terrestrial network (TN) to which to route the emergency call; and routing the emergen...