US Patent Issued to NEC on July 1 for "Apparatus and method for controlling transmission in a communication system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,289, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for controlling transmission in a communication system" was invented by Caroline Liang (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple m...