ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,285, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for improving pipeline safety for space-terrestrial network architecture" was invented by Nan Hao (Hangzhou, China), Xingming Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Xiangming Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Fujun Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for improving pipeline safety of a space-terrestrial network architecture. The method pre-registers the profile of a base station in the network repository function network element of a 5G core network; after receiving a relay pipeline connection establishment request initiated by...