US Patent Issued to SoftBank on Jan. 13 for "Interference suppression apparatus, system, inter-base station control method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,002, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Interference suppression apparatus, system, inter-base station control method and program" was invented by Takuya Kaneda (Tokyo) and Teruya Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a HetNet configuration in which plural small-sized second cells are disposed in a first cell, an amount of signal processing for suppressing interference from other cells with respect to a reception signal on an uplink line of a base station of any one of the cells is reduced. An interference suppression apparatus creates a first propagation-path response matrix including a plurality of...