US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 3 for "User equipment, base station and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,952, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, base station and communication method" was invented by Daiki Takeda (Tokyo), Kazuaki Takeda (Tokyo), Takayuki Isogawa (Tokyo) and Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes a control unit that sets an operation mode of the user equipment to an idle mode; and a transmission unit that transmits, while a time alignment retained by the control unit is valid, information indicating presence of the user equipment on each of transmission resources with a predetermined frequency in a time direction, from among a plurality of tran...