US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 14 for "Radio base station and terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,363, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Radio base station and terminal" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Mayuko Okano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel access procedure is executed in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A radio base station executes a channel access procedure using a single directional reception beam, and transmits a single synchronization signal block in a channel occupancy time after the channel access procedure."

The patent was filed on Oct. 15, 2020, under Application No. 18/031,763.

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