ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,221, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system for communicating minimum system information" was invented by Yassin Aden Awad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a fi...