ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,458, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Geolocation based resource management for satellites in a non-terrestrial network" was invented by Egil Gronstad (Bellevue, Wash.), Jun Liu (Sammamish, Wash.) and Kun Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology is directed to a system that allocates a frequency band to a satellite within a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and determines the available channel bandwidth for data transmissions within that frequency band. If the satellite detects an absence of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection between the satellite and at least one term...