ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,946, issued on June 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating non-terrestrial network traffic scheduling via a combined cell" was invented by Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas), Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first parametric information, analyzing, based on the obtaining of the first parametric information, the first parametric information to identify a first plurality of resources associated with a terrestrial network (TN) and at least a sec...