US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 9 for "Shared slot format indication for multiple component carriers" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,675, issued on June 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Shared slot format indication for multiple component carriers" was invented by Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives downlink control information from a network; and a controller that applies a slot format indicated by the downlink control information to a plurality of component carriers."

The patent was filed on March 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/914,175.

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