ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,265, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Backhaul link for a high altitude platform" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backhaul node can implement a method for managing communications between a non-terrestrial base station and a core network. The method may include: establishing (502) a connection to the core network; requesting (504), from the non-terrestrial base station, radio resources for a radio connection between the backhaul node and the non-terrestrial base station; establishing (506) the radio connect...