ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,315, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that judges allocation of a downlink shared channel or a reference signal for the downlink shared channel, based on at least one of a cell index, a control resource set pool index, and a group index configured for a control resource set to which each of the synchronization signal block and ...