US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Cell selection, network selection, tracking area management, and paging for aerial operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,057, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell selection, network selection, tracking area management, and paging for aerial operation" was invented by Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Stefano Faccin (San Ysidro, Calif.), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere (La Jolla, Calif.) and Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In one example, an aerial user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a priority for cell selection for aerial UEs from each cell in a set of cells and ...