ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,132, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Signal storm avoidance between satellites and user equipment" was invented by Akin Ozozlu (McLean, Va.), Nagi A. Mansour (Arlington, Va.) and Kevin Almon Hart (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for avoiding or mitigating signals storms on satellite radio access networks. Based on a determination that a UE is connected to a satellite, one or more uplink mitigation measures will be carried out. The uplink mitigation measures function to limit the uplink signalin...