ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,257, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Kouhei Harada (Tokyo), Akihito Hanaki (Tokyo) and Keisuke Saito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a communication unit configured to perform communication to which dual connectivity is applied with a base station, a receiving unit configured to receive, from the base station, signaling indicating an indication to perform activation of a secondary cell group and signaling indicating an indication to perform deactivation of the secondary cell group, and a control unit configured to perform the dea...