ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,171, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Cell determination method and electronic device" was invented by Xinlei Yu (Dongguan, China), Haitao Li (Dongguan, China) and Jingran Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell determination method and an electronic device. The method comprises receiving a first message from a network node at a current cell, wherein the first message is configured to indicate whether a Non Terrestrial Network (NTN) exists in a backhaul link of the current cell; and performing a cell selection based on the first message."...