ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,115, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method to assist message transmission in non-terrestrial network without feeder link" 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: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for receiving, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity, a signal comprising an indication that the NTN entity supports relay operation, via an NTN, of messages associated with one or more services; and sending, to the NTN entity, a message associated with one of the one or more services and configure...