ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,982, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, communication system, and method for receiving SPS-PDSCH transmissions relative to a HARQ process" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Wenjia Liu (Beijing) and Jing Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station, an indication for activating SPS (Semi-persistent scheduling)-PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) in an NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) environment; a control unit configured to determine whether a HARQ (H...