US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 22 for "Avoiding communications over risky non-terrestrial networks" (Kansas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,089, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Avoiding communications over risky non-terrestrial networks" 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: "A wireless device receives a signal from a purported non-terrestrial network (NTN) and initiates verification of the legitimacy of the purported NTN. The wireless device detects an actual angle of arrival of the signal from the purported NTN and determines an expected angle of arrival of the signal from a legitimate NTN known to the wireless device, based on the device's current...