ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,581, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive control information and data from a base station; a control unit configured to determine a carrier for transmitting an uplink control channel, based on the control information; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information related to retransmission control of the data in the determined carrier. The ...