US Patent Issued to SoftBank on Jan. 27 for "Communication relay apparatus, remote control apparatus, system, area control method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,571, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided of a communication relay apparatus of aerial-floating type (HAPS) capable of appropriately performing a division into subareas used for an area optimization in dynamic area control that can respond to a change in distribution of terminal apparatuses in a service area configured with plural cells formed toward the ground, depending on a stat...