US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Feb. 10 for "Base station, wireless communications network and methods for operating the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. RE50,791, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Base station, wireless communications network and methods for operating the same" was invented by Martin Kurras (Berlin), Lars Thiele (Berlin), Markus Landmann (Erlangen, Germany), Marcus GroBmann (Erlangen, Germany), Niels Hadaschik (Erlangen, Germany) and Norbert Franke (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station is configured to control a wireless communication network cell of a wireless communication network and is configured to use a coarse position information related to a coarse position of...