ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,805, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal, base station, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal (11) comprises a radio communication unit (111) and a controller (112). The radio communication unit (111) is configured to communicate with a base station (13). The controller (112) is configured to change at least one of a cell selection operation, a cell reselection operation, and a handover operation according to whether a specific coverage enhancement processing is required or acco...