ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,564, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Inter satellite coverage management" was invented by Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for improved management of extraterrestrial base stations' coverage areas. The system comprises one or more extraterrestrial base stations of a radio access network and one or more computer processing components. The disclosure involves continuously monitoring signal metrics or load levels from multiple base station coverage areas...