US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 6 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,505, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (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 grant related to an uplink shared channel from a base station; a control unit configured to determine whether HARQ-ACK (Hybrid automatic repeat request-Acknowledgement) is to be multiplexed with the uplink shared channel in a case where a DAI (Downlink Assignment Index) included in the grant indicates that the HARQ-ACK is to be multiplexed with the uplink shared channel and where ...