US Patent Issued to NTT on March 24 for "Base station, base station system, and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,058, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station, base station system, and communication method" was invented by Yasuhiko Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Akira Kishida (Musashino, Japan), Kengo Nagata (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 (20A) that, in a base station system (1) including a first base station (10) and at least two second base stations (20A, 20B), functions as the first base station (10), includes: a MAC processing unit (103) that performs MAC layer processing and generates a first MAC frame used in com...