US Patent Issued to Ofinno on March 24 for "Scheduling request in non-terrestrial networks" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,026, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Scheduling request in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh Dashtaki (Burnaby, Canada), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.) and Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media access control (MAC) layer of a wireless device sends a first indication indicating transmission of a scheduling request (SR) to a physical layer of the wireless device. The MAC layer receives from the physical layer a second indication indicating the SR is being dropped. In some cases, the...