ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,989, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Mobile communication system, base station, master base station, secondary base station and user equipment" was invented by Takuya Ohara (Tokyo), Taisei Suemitsu (Tokyo), Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Kuniyuki Suzuki (Tokyo), Masayuki Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Hiramatsu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When being connected to a macro cell (S-MeNB) and a small cell (SeNB), a user equipment device performs a pre-handover process of disconnecting the connection with the SeNB before a handover process of switching a macro cell connected with the UE from the m...