ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,211, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station and terminal apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiko Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Kengo Nagata (Musashino, Japan), Akira Kishida (Musashino, Japan), Yusuke Asai (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 includes first and second wireless signal processing units, and a link management unit. The link management unit establishes a multi-link with a terminal apparatus by using the first and second wireless signal processing units, and sets an anchor link to be used in transmission and r...