ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,098, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station for transmitting HARQ-ACK" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives an initial transmission of downlink (DL) data, the DL data being scheduled based on first downlink control information (DCI) and multicasted, and a control section that controls reception of a retransmission of the DL data based on a result of decoding the initial transmission, the DL data bei...