ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,492, issued on April 7, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam failure is appropriately detected. A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that, when a set of a reference signal (RS) index corresponding to a resource for beam failure detection (BFD) is not configured using higher layer signaling and a specific parameter is configured, selects up to a given number of control resource sets (CORESETs) for determining the RS index to...