ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,289, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-terrestrial network default value configuration" was invented by Toru Uchino (Zushi, Japan), Bharat Shrestha (San Diego) and Umesh Phuyal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select a default value for a radio parameter used for communicating with a network node based at least in part on whether the network node is a terrestrial network (TN) node or a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node, an orbit type associated with the network nod...