ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,913, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Terrestrial multi-antenna system for airborne wireless service" was invented by Bhagwan Singh Khanka (Las Vegas) and Brandon James Braunlich (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for delivering telecommunications coverage to airborne user equipment (UE). More particularly, in aspects set forth herein, systems and methods utilize a multi-antenna system at a terrestrial base station in order to separately communicate signals to UEs at (or near) ground level and to UEs...