US Patent Issued to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS on Sept. 22 for "System and method for efficient scanning of satellite coverage utilizing 3GPP-based systems" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,586, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"System and method for efficient scanning of satellite coverage utilizing 3GPP-based systems" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein relates to enhancing satellite coverage and improving user device experiences. For example, the technology discussed herein can include establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection between a first satellite and a user device (e.g., an active or idle RRC connection). Based on the RRC connection, the first satellite can generate a messa...