ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,898, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and method" was invented by Masashi Anzawa (Tokyo), Daiki Takeda (Tokyo), Hiroki Ishizuka (Tokyo) and Koji Hiratsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a communication device capable of communicating with a terminal that performs wireless communication. The communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a request for network quality requirements from the terminal; a calculator configured to calculate network quality requirements available to the terminal; a determination unit configured to compare the request with th...