ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,212, issued on July 1, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and control methods for the same for cellular communication network in which relay communication is performed" was invented by Hiroki Takeda (Tokyo), Xiao Shao (Tokyo), Yasutomo Miyake (Tokyo) and Shingo Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station apparatus, configured to establish a wireless link for a backhaul line with a relay apparatus, and provide a first period in which a radio resource is used by the base station apparatus for the backhaul line, and a second period in which the radio resource is not used by ...