ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,219, issued on May 27, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system" was invented by Yusuke Terada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a communication system, comprising: a base station unit that is mounted on a flight vehicle, forms a wireless communication area by radiating a beam to a ground, and communicates wirelessly with a user terminal in the wireless communication area; a processing server unit that is communicatively connected to the base station unit and provides a service to the user terminal in the wireless communication area: a closed-network core unit that provides a mobile communic...