ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,794, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Network system and control method of network system" was invented by Taiichi Otsuji (Miyagi, Japan), Katsumi Iwatsuki (Miyagi, Japan), Hirohito Yamada (Miyagi, Japan), Masafumi Yashima (Miyagi, Japan), Masakazu Matsui (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Koshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system includes: a wireless base station configured to relay communication performed by wireless terminals; distributed antennas each being configured to be connected to the wireless base station and form a cell that enables communic...