ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,842, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Activating satellite SOS mode in limited service" was invented by Surendra Kompala (Fremont, Calif.), Sachin Jain (Milpitas, Calif.), Shubham Panchadhar (Hyderabad, India) and Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods and wireless devices implementing such methods for detecting when the wireless device is operating in a limited service state (LSS) mode, transitioning from operating in LSS to satellite-based SOS mode in response to the wireless device operating in LSS mode, and sending a text message o...