ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,815, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Interference detection apparatus, radio base station, interference detection method, and program" was invented by Yuya Wada (Tokyo) and Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to enable a precedent base station to perform appropriate processing on interference by a subsequent base station in a mobile communication system, a base station 201 includes an interference source specifying unit 360 configured to obtain information related to a received signal received by the base station 201 from each of a plurality of directions and to specify, based on th...