ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,148, issued on June 9, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal, base station and communication method" was invented by Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal having: a controlling unit configured to determine a subcarrier spacing to be applied to a physical uplink control channel satisfying a bandwidth and map the physical uplink control channel to a physical resource; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the physical resource to a base station."
The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2020, under Application No...