ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,294, issued on Oct. 7, 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, based on a degree of correlation identified for each pair of base station systems, a plurality of base station systems into a plurality of base station system groups. An operation control module executes operation control of a leader base station system based on a degree of operation of the leader base station system being a prediction result. The operation control module execut...