ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,666, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource allocation for an NTN with beam hopping" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego) and Chiranjib Saha (Lakeside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication at a UE is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving, via a satellite and over a first bandwidth and a first beam, at least one of an SSB or a SIB for a cell. The method includes receiving, via the satellite and over a second bandwidth and a second beam, at least one of a CSI-RS or DM-RS for data transmission ...