US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 16 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,780, issued on June 16, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from another communication apparatus, a signal requesting a CSI (Channel State Information) report and a CSI reference signal, in a resource autonomously selected by the another communication apparatus; a control unit configured to perform measurement by usin...