ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,334, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"RU apparatus, DU apparatus, communication system, communication method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Ukyo Hishi (Tokyo) and Atsushi Nakata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a remote unit (RU) apparatus that can effectively utilize statistical information of packets generated in a RU apparatus and a distributed unit (DU) apparatus that execute separated functions in a base station. A RU apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a reception unit (11) that receives a packe...