ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,531, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radio signal strength information calculation method, control apparatus and program" was invented by Toshiro Nakahira (Tokyo), Motoharu Sasaki (Tokyo), Koichi Ishihara (Tokyo), Takatsune Moriyama (Tokyo) and Yasushi Takatori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio signal strength information calculation method performed by a control apparatus includes: calculating radio information regarding each of a plurality of meshes into which an area where base stations are placed is divided and generating mesh radio information; and placing a virtual b...