US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on May 12 for "Terminal and method for controlling repetition of uplink control channel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,156, issued on May 12, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and method for controlling repetition of uplink control channel" was invented by Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal transmits an uplink control channel corresponding to an antenna beam transmitted from a radio base station. The terminal assumes a symbol location of a repetition of the uplink control channel based on an explicit or implicit notification."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/802,835.

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