US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 18 for "Radio access network node, radio terminal, and method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,966, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio access network node, radio terminal, and method therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target RAN node (3) receives, from a core network (5), a message requesting a handover of a radio terminal (1) from a bearer-based network to a bearer-less network. This handover request message includes flow information related to at least one session to be established in the bearer-less network in order to transfer at least one packet flow of the radio terminal (1). The target RAN node (3) transmits, to the core...