ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,618, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Lihui Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, configuration information of a plurality of search spaces each of which is associated with a control resource set, wherein, between a plurality of control resource sets associated with the plurality of search spaces, values of parameters of a part of a plurality of parameters that each control resource set has are common, and the...