US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for satellite access in a wireless communication system" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,097, issued on June 30, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for satellite access in a wireless communication system" was invented by Chadi Khirallah (Middlesex, Great Britain), Mahmoud Watfa (Middlesex, Great Britain) and Lalith Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system includes identifying that a user equipment (UE) is out of a coverage of a satellite due to a discontinuous coverage (DC), and transmit...