US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on April 14 for "Terminal, base station, and radio communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,224, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo) and Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprises: a transmission unit that transmits a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a reception quality in a physical layer; and a control unit that assumes the measurement related to the reception quality in the physical layer is performed using the reference signal."

The patent w...