US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on April 14 for "Anticipated loss of satellite coverage" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,699, issued on April 14, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Anticipated loss of satellite coverage" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein relates to enhancing satellite coverage and improving user device experiences. For example, the technology discussed herein can include establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection between a satellite and a user device (e.g., an active or idle RRC connection). Based on the RRC connection, the satellite can generate a message (e.g., an RRC connection release message) that includes a time...