ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,431, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication system and communication control method" was invented by Le Liu (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Kakura (Tokyo), Naoto Ishii (Tokyo) and Takamichi Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals ...