US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Signaling efficiency improvements in non-terrestrial networks" (Danish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,987, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Signaling efficiency improvements in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Xiang Xu (Nanjing, China), Jeroen Wigard (Klarup, Denmark), Istvan Z. Kovacs (Aalborg, Denmark), Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark) and Ping Yuan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station serving UE(s) receives validity time information for cell(s) formed by other base station(s). The validity time information indicates at least a time period when corresponding cells are available for use by the UE(s). The base station determines action(s) to perform for the UE(s) ...