ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,828, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method implemented by user equipment to access satellite network" was invented by Cristina Ciochina (Rennes cedex, France) and Nicolas Gresset (Rennes cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a user equipment to access a satellite network, at least one satellite of the satellite network being in movement relatively to Earth, the satellite network deploying radiofrequency satellite beams, wherein the user equipment: receives through at least a first satellite beam data of assistance information regarding at least current and future ...