ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,409, issued on June 23, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Lihui Wang (Beijing), Shaozhen Guo (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to, in future radio communication systems, appropriately control activation and deactivation timings of an SCell, even in a case that whichever subcarrier spacing is configured on any carrier, an aspect of a user terminal according to the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives an activation command or deactivation command for a certain cell, and a control sectio...