US Patent Issued to SoftBank on Dec. 9 for "Communication relay apparatus, remote control apparatus, system, area control method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,840, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication relay apparatus, remote control apparatus, system, area control method and program" was invented by Yohei Shibata (Tokyo), Wataru Takabatake (Tokyo) and Kenji Hoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is to provide an aerial-floating type communication relay apparatus (HAPS) that can perform a dynamic area control capable of adapting to a change of distribution of terminal apparatuses in a service area configured with plural cells formed toward the ground, and that can suppress an increase in time required for area optimization. The aerial-staying typ...