US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Sept. 8 for "Estimating congestion based on both communication and non-communication perspectives" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,861, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Estimating congestion based on both communication and non-communication perspectives" was invented by Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo), Jin Kusumi (Tokyo) and Takuya Miyazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control apparatus includes at least one processor that performs: by a communication congestion detector, detecting congestion state of communications in a communication cell; by a congestion measurer, measuring congestion state of at least one of persons and objects in the communication cell; and by a congestion state estimator, estimating congesti...