ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,308, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus and method thereof for adapting downlink or uplink transmission parameters to radio link condition" was invented by Takeo Onishi (Tokyo) and Eiji Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus predicts a probability distribution of radio quality when a downlink transmission from a base station to a radio terminal or an uplink transmission from a radio terminal to a base station is to be performed. The control apparatus calculates an expected value of a block error rate or reliability in the downlink or uplink transmission using the pr...