ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,009, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication system, and radio communication method for determining a transmit duration in an uplink channel" was invented by Haruhi Echigo (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo) and Hiroki Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal repeatedly transmits an uplink channel in a specific duration greater than or equal to a plurality of slots, and controls transmission of the uplink channel. When the specific duration is not indicated, the terminal determines a length of the specific duration on the basis of a number of transmissions of the uplink chan...