US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 14 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,616, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive a control channel and a shared channel in an unlicensed band from another terminal; a control unit configured to perform an LBT (Listen before talk) for a period in a symbol immediately before a resource of a feedback channel corresponding to the shared channel or in a first symbol of the resource of the feedback channel; and a trans...