ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,270, issued on March 24, was assigned to Lynk Global Inc. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Cellular core network and radio access network infrastructure and management in space" was invented by Tyghe Robert Speidel (Washington) and Charles E. Miller (Arlington, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular network management system manages terrestrial base station communications and orbital base station communications with user equipment to provide wireless service and allocate links among terrestrial base stations and orbital base stations according to base station availability determined from state space predictions."
The patent was filed o...