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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,998, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, radio communication system, and radio communication method" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives data in data delivery to a plurality of terminals via a downlink channel, and a control unit that performs specific processing related to the data delivery based on downlink control information for multicast newly defined for the data delivery."

The patent was filed on Jan. 11, 2022, under Appl...