ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,490, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Distributed antenna system, wireless communication method, and centralized station" was invented by Hayato Fukuzono (Musashino, Japan), Keita Kuriyama (Musashino, Japan), Masafumi Yoshioka (Musashino, Japan) and Toshifumi Miyagi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aggregation station: receives, from each of the base stations, communication path information with each of accommodated user terminals, for each user terminal; in a case where it is determined that the two of the base stations and the two user terminals are arranged on the straight line, generates firs...