US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 21 for "User terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,760, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal" was invented by Naoki Yamamoto (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal (10) according to one embodiment includes: a notification unit (11) configured to perform a notification for the user using at least one of a sound or a vibration; and a control unit (14) configured to control operations of the notification unit (11). The control unit (14) causes the notification unit (11) to execute a dummy notification not including details of which the user is to be notified at a predetermined notification timing separately from a regular ...