US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 21 for "Base station, terminal and communication method for performing dual connectivity (DC) in multiple radio access technologies (RAT)" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,841, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station, terminal and communication method for performing dual connectivity (DC) in multiple radio access technologies (RAT)" was invented by Yuuya Hoshizaki (Tokyo), Junpei Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shinichirou Kitazawa (Tokyo), Masato Taniguchi (Tokyo) and Tarou Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station, that is a first base station performing dual connectivity together with a second base station, includes: a control unit configured to determine a candidate list of band combinations used for the dual connectivity, the candidate list being determined ba...