US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 21 for "Systems and methods for support of a 5G satellite radio access technology" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,761, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for support of a 5G satellite radio access technology" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access, mobility management and regulatory services are supported for satellite access to a Fifth Generation (5G) core network. A coverage area, e.g., country, region, multiple countries, and international areas, are divided into fixed virtual cells having well defined geographic boundaries and fixed tracking areas. Information for the virtual cells and/or tracking areas and associated with one or more pub...