US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on May 19 for "Increasing efficiency of communication between a mobile device and a satellite associated with a wireless telecommunication network" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,694, issued on May 19, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Increasing efficiency of communication between a mobile device and a satellite associated with a wireless telecommunication network" was invented by Jeff Ahmet (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system obtains an access class associated with a UE, where the access class indicates whether the UE is authorized to communicate with a satellite and stores the access class at the UE. The system obtains broadcast information from the satellite, where the broadcast information indicates one or more access classes authorized to communicate with the sa...