US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on May 13 for "Base station, terminal apparatus, and wireless communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,380, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Base station, terminal apparatus, and wireless communication method" was invented by Akira Kishida (Musashino, Japan), Kengo Nagata (Musashino, Japan), Yasuhiko Inoue (Musashino, Japan), Yusuke Asai (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a generation unit (35) that generates a beacon including switching information (41) indicating whether to cooperatively use a frequency channel and a transmission unit (32) that transmits th...