ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,028, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Skylo Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Base station management of a connection of a wireless device to a satellite network" was invented by Andrew Nuttall (Mountain View, Calif.), Soham Dhiren Desai (Palo Alto, Calif.), Meghna Agrawal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Christopher Acker (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems of a base station of a satellite network managing a connection of a wireless device to the satellite network are disclosed. One method includes broadcasting location information of a satellite associated with the base station, ...