US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on May 19 for "User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,103, issued on May 19, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal, radio base station and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal used in a radio communication system in which downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) are switchable per transmission time interval (TTI), the user terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a DL signal in a DL TTI. The user terminal also includes a processor that controls reception of the DL signal by determining whether each TTI is the DL TTI or not based on a signal c...