ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,666, issued on May 19, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Rich communication services encrypted messaging fallback on non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Ayman Zaki (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided herein for facilitating Rich Communication Services (RCS) error messaging in a non-RCS capable network. It is determined that a first device and a second device are communicating using encrypted RCS messaging in a terrestrial network. It is then determined that the second device has transitioned from the terrestrial network to a non-terrestrial network. A dete...