ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,178, issued on June 2, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Mitigating interference between satellite and terrestrial cellular networks" was invented by Cameron Brent Byrne (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for mitigating interference between satellite networks and terrestrial cellular networks are provided. Interference may occur when a UE uses an extraterrestrial network when a terrestrial network is available. A method of mitigating interference between an extraterrestrial network and a terrestrial network begins with detecting, by an extraterrestrial access point, that at least one terrest...