US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Systems and methods for supporting location and country determination for 5G satellite access" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,312, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for supporting location and country determination for 5G satellite access" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Satellite access to a PLMN with a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN) is supported by a serving satellite NodeB (gNB). The gNB determines or verifies the country in which a user equipment (UE) is located to ensure that the UE is located in the same country as the PLMN. The gNB may determine the country of the UE based on UE measurements from broadcast satellite signals and a posit...