ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,366, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station and communication control apparatus" was invented by Kenichirou Aoyagi (Tokyo), Takashi Koshimizu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Ishikawa (Tokyo), Keiichi Kanbara (Tokyo) and Na Yo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station used in a communication system comprising a core network, and a first and second base stations both of which are connected to the core network, wherein the base station being used as the first base station, the base station comprising: a network communication unit that receives a bearer setting request from the core network; and a bearer co...