ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,679, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Communication system" was invented by Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Kuniyuki Suzuki (Tokyo), Futoshi Katada (Tokyo) and Hirochika Hiraki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is provided that can improve the communication capability of a communication terminal device in the case where a large number of small cells in addition to a macro cell are installed and operated. A communication terminal device (UE) is connected with a macro cell configured by a MeNB and a small cell configured by a SeNB, so that dual connectivity is performed. When r...