US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 20 for "RRC idle mode transition for non-terrestrial network cell" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,335, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"RRC idle mode transition for non-terrestrial network cell" was invented by Edward Masami Sugiyama (Vancouver, Wash.) and Atsushi Ishii (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal is described. The wireless terminal includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a signaling release message from a core network node. The wireless terminal delays re-selection of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) cell for a specific amount of time."

The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/476,112.

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