ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,420, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Initiating uplink transmission in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Gautham Prasad (Herndon, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a satellite, a system information block comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating: a first time for determining transmission of an uplink signal via a cell, and a second time when the cell stops serving ...