ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,957, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Yuichi Kakishima (Tokyo) and Hiroki Harada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive a reference signal of a first RAT (Radio Access Technology) and a data signal of a second RAT; and a control unit configured to decode the data signal based on precoder information applied to the reference signal and to the data signal."
The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/759,153.
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