US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 25 for "User equipment, method of user equipment, network node, and method of network node" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,436, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, method of user equipment, network node, and method of network node" was invented by Yuhua Chen (London), Caroline Liang (Guildford, Great Britain) and Neeraj Gupta (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a user equipment (UE) for communicating via a non-terrestrial network is disclosed. The method comprises determining whether the UE is in coverage of the non-terrestrial network or out-of-coverage of the non-terrestrial network and initiating a procedure for power saving of the UE, based on the determining."

The patent was filed on July 29, 2022, ...