MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517074972 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Aug. 6, for 'user equipment location verification in non-terrestrial networks.'
Inventor(s) include Ye, Chunxuan; Zhang, Dawei; Zeng, Wei; He, Hong; Yang, Weidong; and Oteri, Oghenekome.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A device such as a location management function (LMF) may receive assistance data including uplink (UL)-angle of arrival (AoA) information. In some examples, the UL-AoA information may be associated with one or more UL transmissions from a user equipment (UE) to a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device. The device may perform a positioning procedure using the UL-AoA information. In some examples, a UE may transmit, to an LMF, assistance data information including a number of satellites in view and satellite ephemeris data for one or more satellites of the number of satellites in view. In some examples, a UE may receive, from an NTN device, a downlink control information (DCI) message. The DCI message may include a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition number for Msg4 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 16, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/011688.
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