ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,111, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system, base station and communication terminal" was invented by Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo), Tadahiro Shimoda (Tokyo), Noriyuki Fukui (Tokyo) and Masaaki Kusano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a communication system capable of suppressing increase in the power consumption of a communication terminal device, degradation in the communication quality, and reduction in the use efficiency of radio resources. A base station device (gNB) notifies a communication terminal device (UE) of information on the next reception timing. The UE r...