ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,845, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal" was invented by Naoki Yamamoto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Takashi Hamatani (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Wataru Yamada (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Keiichi Ochiai (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal 10 according to one embodiment is a user terminal configured to be able to execute a plurality of applications set in advance as targets for use limit. The user terminal (10) includes: a setting unit (11) configured to set a weight according to an application to each of a plurality of applications; a calculation unit (13) configured to calculate a...