ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,652, issued on April 7, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"User equipment and control method" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, an instruction designating a method in which a random access procedure is performed, and includes a control unit configured to determine, in accordance with the instruction, whether to execute a random access procedure of a method in which a first message is transmitted using a preamble resource and a PUSCH resource."
The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2019, under Applicatio...