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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,058, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive a specific information element from a base station through system information or dedicated signaling; and a control unit configured to apply a technology for an unlicensed frequency band to a target range of the specific information element in a case where the specific information element is received. The control unit executes at least l...