ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,054, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and base station" was invented by Tadahiro Shimoda (Tokyo) and Mitsuru Mochizuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a communication terminal, and a serving base station of the communication terminal. The serving base station notifies the communication terminal of an instruction to configure a measurement gap for the communication terminal to measure a positioning signal transmitted from at least one neighboring base station in order to measure a position of the communication terminal, without a request f...