ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,968, issued on April 7, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method" was invented by Tomoki Murakami (Musashino, Japan), Masashi Iwabuchi (Musashino, Japan), Riku Omiya (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station according to an embodiment is a base station that performs wireless communication with a terminal using a directional antenna within a predetermined area, the base station including: acquisition circuitry configured to acquire data from a database that holds data ...