ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,701, issued on April 22, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Base station and communication method" was invented by Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Tianyang Min (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station includes a receiving unit that receives capability information including information indicating a first group consisting of band combinations that can be used only for a specific dual connectivity, and information indicating a second group consisting of band combinations that can be used for the specific dual connectivity in a terminal; a control unit that assigs a plurality of indexes to a corresponding plurality of ban...