US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 20 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,242, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (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 configuration related to an uplink control channel from a base station; a control unit configured to determine a resource of the uplink control channel, based on the configuration; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink control channel via the resource. In a case where the configuration indicates that frequency ho...