US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 9 for "Cellular API for satellite configurations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,644, issued on June 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cellular API for satellite configurations" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Aamir Akram (San Jose, Calif.), Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sharath Ananth (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE receives satellite ephemeris information from a server and calculates one or more satellite parameters for at least one satellite based on the satellite ephemeris information. The UE controls, based on the one or more satellite parameters, operation of a software application that utilizes a data service provided via the at le...