US Patent Issued to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS on July 28 for "Anticipated satellite coverage notifications" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,231, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a dataset of anticipated coverage areas associated with one or more satellites locally stored on a user equipment (UE) and a location of the UE, the UE can determine its location relative to a satellite coverage area. Various information can then be displayed by the UE, including an amount of time until the UE enters the satellite coverage area and how long it will be in the coverage area...