ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,161, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio access network node, radio terminal, and methods and non-transitory computer-readable media therefor" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second RAN node (2) associated with a second RAT sends a radio resource configuration of the second RAT to a radio terminal (3) via a first RAN node (1) associated with a first RAT. The radio resource configuration explicitly or implicitly indicates at least one numerology that is included in multiple numerologies supported by the second RAT and is different from a referen...