ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,268, issued on March 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods, communications device and base station for a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Martin Warwick Beale (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of operating a terminal in a mobile telecommunications system comprising a Non-Terrestrial Network "NTN", the network comprising a base station and the terminal, the terminal being configured to communicate with the base station via an air interface provided by in...