US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for signaling non-terrestrial band identifiers" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,220, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for signaling non-terrestrial band identifiers" was invented by Alexander Sayenko (Munich) and Anatoliy S Ioffe (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides various techniques for enabling user equipment to communicate with a non-terrestrial communication hub or network of non-terrestrial communication hubs via a non-terrestrial network (NTN). By conforming NTN communications to standards and regulations for terrestrial cellular communications, network capabilities of the user equipment may be enhanced. This m...