US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on April 29 for "Paging control for terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,664, issued on April 29, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Paging control for terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Tsunehiko Chiba (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Aoyagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication control apparatus comprising: a first paging control unit that causes one base station of a terrestrial base station and a non-terrestrial base station to transmit a first paging signal to a communication device in a location registration area that includes at least one terrestrial communication cell provided on the ground by the terrestrial base station installed on the ground and at least o...