ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,698, issued on March 17, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"User terminal and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Daisuke Murayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To properly consider the QCL assumption about SSBs in an NR-U carrier, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure is characterized by having a receiving section that receives a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), and a control section which acquires an effective SSB index based on a demodulation reference signal (DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS)) of a broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel (PB...