US Patent Issued to NEC on March 18 for "Radio communication system, radio station, radio terminal, communication control method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,271, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication system, radio station, radio terminal, communication control method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Hisashi Futaki (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio network (6) and a radio terminal (4) are configured to, when the radio terminal (4) is using a first cell (10) served by a first radio station (1) as a primary cell and a second cell (20) served by a second radio station (2) as a secondary cell, change the secondary cell form the second cell (20) to a third cell (30) while keeping communication status i...