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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,619, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Transmission node and communication method" was invented by Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission node includes: a reception unit configured to execute an LBT (Listen before talk) in a time interval immediately before transmitting a signal; a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal in a case where reception power is less than a threshold value in the time interval; and a control unit configured to, in a case w...