US Patent Issued to Apple on March 31 for "LEO satellite connection assistance using MEO satellite signal data" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,068, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"LEO satellite connection assistance using MEO satellite signal data" was invented by Aditya N. Srivastava (Fremont, Calif.), Glenn D. MacGougan (San Jose, Calif.), Harsha Shirahatti (Santa Clara, Calif.), William J. Bencze (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Aleksey Shlyapnikov (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Walia (Cupertino, Calif.), Lohit Sarna (San Mateo, Calif.), Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.), Sudhir K. Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Thanigaivelu Elangovan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein leverage medium Earth orbit ...