ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,031, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for assisted non-terrestrial network selection and access" was invented by Andrew M. Grodin (Livingston, N.J.), Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.) and Andrew E. Youtz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an assisted non-terrestrial network selection and access service. The assisted non-terrestrial network selection and access service include providing non-terrestrial network assistance information to end devices. T...