ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,176, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Control system and control method" was invented by Makoto Ono (Tokyo), Kazushige Takeuchi (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classification module classifies, for each period type, a plurality of base station systems into a plurality of base station system groups based on a degree of similarity identified for the each period type. An operation control module executes, for each of the plurality of base station system groups obtained in the classifying in the period type to which present belongs, operation control corresponding to a d...