US Patent Issued to NEC on July 8 for "Distributed unit, central unit, radio access network node, and method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,273, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed unit, central unit, radio access network node, 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 Distributed Unit (DU) (2) of a base station sends a first message to a Central Unit (1) of the base station in response to detecting initiation of a conditional mobility of a radio terminal (3) from a first cell served by the DU (2) to a second cell. It is thus for example possible to allow a Central Unit (CU) to be aware of satisfaction of an execution condition of a conditional mobility (or initiat...