ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,794, issued on Nov. 3.

"IMS eligibility for an EU-SAT-EU communication scheme" was invented by Jean-Yves Fine (Marseilles, France), Dorin Panaitopol (Gennevilliers, France), Mohamed El Jaafari (Toulouse, France) and Flavien Ronteix-Jacquet (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing a communication of the IP multimedia subsystem in local routing mode where user data are routed directly at one or more interconnected satellites, without passing through the ground, between two UE terminals connected to a regenerative satellite of a communication network comprising a satellite constellation. A session contro...