ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,975, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station, communication terminal, and communication method for base station" was invented by Kohei Yoshida (Tokyo) and Masakazu Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a base station including: an antenna that emits at least one searching radio beam for searching for a communication terminal and a communication radio beam for communicating with a communication terminal; and at least one processor that executes a transmission process of simultaneously transmitting, from the antenna, a plurality of searching radio beams that are oriented in directions which a...