US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Feb. 24 for "Terminal, base station, and communication method for requesting a cell search signal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,477, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, and communication method for requesting a cell search signal" was invented by Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal has: a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a communication device, a requesting signal that requests transmission of a cell search signal; and a receiving unit configured to receive the cell search signal transmitted based on the requesting signal and identify information relat...