ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,883, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Configuration of a RAN based notification area for a user equipment in RRC inactive state" was invented by Yuhua Chen (Tokyo), Chadi Khirallah (Tokyo) and Neeraj Gupta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which a base station receives, from at least one further base station, information identifying at least one respective tracking area associated with at least one cell of each further base station. The base station also receives, from a core network, information identifying a registration area for a user equipment (UE). The base stat...