US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Nov. 3 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,882, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal having: a receiving unit configured to receive control information including an indication of switching a search space set group, from a base station; and a controlling unit configured to switch the search space set group, based on the indication, wherein the controlling unit does not restart DRX (discontinuous reception) inactivity timer in response to receiving the control information from the base station."

The patent was filed on Oct. 6, 2020,...