ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,371, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hierarchical handover signaling" was invented by Srikar Rajamani (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew B. Dickinson (Seattle), Ali Masoomzadeh (Bellevue, Wash.) and Daniel Todd Cohn (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to hierarchical handover signaling methodology and systems are described. One method includes receiving, by a wireless device from a first artificial satellite, first data indicating a state of network traffic of a first set of communication channels between the first artificial satellite and each of a set of UTs at ...