ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,011, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-terrestrial user equipment measurements" was invented by Meng Zhang (Beijing), Andrey Chervyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Rui Huang (Beijing), Hua Li (Arlington, Va.) and Ilya Bolotin (Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system of enabling reference signal measurements in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) system are described. The UE provides capability information that indicates a maximum number of synchronization signal block (SSB)-based measurement timing configurations (SMTCs) simultaneously supported by the UE for ...