ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,900, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication control apparatus, program, flight vehicle, and communication control method" was invented by Jutatsu Sai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a communication control apparatus which is mounted on a flight vehicle and forms, by using a phased array antenna, a wireless communication area on a ground to provide a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the wireless communication area, the communication control apparatus including: a position information acquisition unit which acquires position information including an altitude of th...