ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,165, issued on March 3, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Non-terrestrial network connection icon" was invented by Ryan P. Dreiling (Shawnee, Kan.), Derrick L. Ives (North Bend, Wash.), Thomas P. Lucht (Seattle), Mehul Shah (Bellevue, Wash.) and Helen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for implementing a non-terrestrial network connection icon are disclosed. A first icon indicative of a connection to a satellite network is displayed at a status portion of a display of a mobile device in response to determining that the mobile device is connected to the satellit...