ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,099, issued on June 30, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method and program for controlling positions of base station and terminal" was invented by Daisuke Murayama (Tokyo) and Shota Nakayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for controlling a position and a direction of a base station, and a position of a specific terminal that wirelessly communicates with the base station in conjunction with each other, the control apparatus including: a shield detection information acquisition unit which acquires information obtained by detecting the shield; a specific terminal position candidat...