ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,454, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Initial access for message relaying using air-to- ground connections" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a method performed at a user equipment (UE) may include obtaining configuration information for communicating with one or more aircrafts. In some examples, the method can include generating a message based at least in part on the configuration information. In some cases, the metho...