ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,822, issued on June 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system" was invented by Chadi Khirallah (Epsom, Great Britain), Yassin Aden Awad (Uxbridge, Great Britain), Neeraj Gupta (Sutton, Great Britain) and Robert Arnott (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which a base station serves a communication area, wherein the communication area is formed by a plurality of directional beams each covering a respective portion of the communication area and each having a different respective beam identifier. The base station communicates control information, for a communication device (UE), ...