ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,666, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Base station device, relay device, and communication system" was invented by Yoshiaki Ohta (Yokohama, Japan), Ryuichi Takechi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yoshihiro Kawasaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station device includes a processor a communicator. The processor configured to perform, when a terminal device performs wireless communication by using both a first wireless communication method that is a wireless communication method with the base station device and a second wireless communication method that is a wireless communication met...