US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 24 for "Direct NTN communication" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,810, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Direct NTN communication" was invented by Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego) and Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for direct NIN communication. The apparatus receives, from a network entity, an indication indicating support for a direct NTN communication. The direct NTN communication between the first UE and at least a second UE bypasses ground-based feeder links. The apparatus transmits, to the network entity, a communication request for the direct NTN communication with at least the second UE based on the indi...