ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,298, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Buffer release for inter-satellite link transition" was invented by Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Liangping Ma (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.).

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 wireless communication device may obtain, at an access stratum (AS) layer, an indication of an inter-satellite link (ISL) activation that is to tak...