US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 6 for "Adaptive phase-changing devices for non-terrestrial networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,453, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptive phase-changing devices for non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects, a high altitude platform station, HAPS, communicating with a user equipment, UE, using an adaptive phase-changing device, APD. The HAPS receives characteristics of the APD and selects the APD for inclusion in a wireless communication path with the UE based at least in part on the characteristics. The HAPS transmits a resource grant to the APD that includes an indicat...