US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 5 for "Non-terrestrial network connection management" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,737, issued on May 5, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Non-terrestrial network connection management" was invented by Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas) and Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards non-terrestrial network connection management. Mobile device transitions between terrestrial and non-terrestrial network connections can be streamlined by predicting transitions in advance and by advance mobile device acquisition of network transition data. Terrestrial and non-terrestrial network functions can provide prediction data and network transit...