US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Aug. 18 for "Terminal, base station, radio communication system and radio communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,412, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, radio communication system and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprises: a control unit that performs, when a base station configures a broader carrier bandwidth wider than a maximum carrier bandwidth supported by the terminal, a communication capable of using a second number of frequency resource larger than a first number of frequency resource, the first number of frequency resource is available...