ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,089, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Base station and terminal apparatus" 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 of the embodiment includes first and second wireless signal processing units and a link management unit. The first and second wireless signal processing units are configured to transmit and receive wireless signals using first and second channels, respectively. The link management unit establishes a multi-link...