US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Feb. 17 for "Terminal, base station apparatus and feedback method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,101, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station apparatus and feedback method" was invented by Masaya Okamura (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive a piece of control information for scheduling PDSCH reception in multiple CCs from a base station apparatus; and a control unit configured to obtain a feedback timing indicator value from the control information, and to determine a feedback timing for each CC of the multiple CCs by using the feedback timing indicator value."

The patent was ...