ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,445, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Control system and control method" was invented by Masahiro Kojima (Tokyo), Kazushige Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Makoto Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation control module executes, in accordance with a predetermined rule, operation control corresponding to a degree of operation of a leader base station system included in one of base station system groups, with respect to a follower base station system included in the base station system group. The operation control module executes, in accordance with occurrence of a predetermined event, operation contr...