ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,263, issued on July 28, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and base station" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a transport block, and that receives, at a first timing at which a portion of the whole transport block is received, control information on another portion of the transport block to be received at a second timing after the first timing; and a transmitting unit that transmits feedback information on reception of the control info...