US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Terrestrial network coverage assisted by non-terrestrial coverage" (Kansas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,277, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Terrestrial network coverage assisted by non-terrestrial coverage" was invented by Raymond E Reeves (Orlando, Fla.) and Simon Youngs (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for modifying terrestrial coverage devices to provide mobile network coverage using information provided by one or more non-terrestrial coverage devices. Information gathered by one or more NTC devices (e.g., satellites) about user equipment (UE) serviced or detected by the NTC devices may be used by a mobile network to modify one or more characteristics of...