ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,367, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station disposition selecting method, base station disposition selecting apparatus and program" was invented by Toshiro Nakahira (Tokyo), Motoharu Sasaki (Tokyo), Daisuke Murayama (Tokyo), Shota Nakayama (Tokyo), Takatsune Moriyama (Tokyo) and Yasushi Takatori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station deployment position selection method executed by a computer includes calculating, in an area where a first base station to which a plurality of terminals are connected is deployed, for each of a plurality of candidates for a deployment position of a second base s...