ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,547, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Global navigation satellite system data validity in non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Talha Khan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xingqin Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Zhipeng Lin (Nanjing Jiangsu, China) and Johan Rune (Lidingo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (900) by a user equipment, UE, (112) for determining the validity of Global navigation satellite system, GNSS, data, includes maintaining (902) at least one validity timer for determining whether the GNSS data is valid or not valid."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2022, under ...