US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 2 for "Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,975, issued on June 2, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Weiqi Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a number M of antenna ports and a number N of layers being smaller than M, and a transmitting section that transmits a physical uplink shared channel by using N layers. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, UL transmission of a greater number of layers can be approp...