US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Sept. 1 for "Terminal, base station, and radio communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,933, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo) and Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprises: a reception unit that receives a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a position of terminal; and a control unit that performs the measurement related to the position of terminal using the reference signal."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2021, under Application No. 18/27...