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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,250, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station and communication method" was invented by Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Qiping Pi (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a control unit configured to assume a beam switching gap between a plurality of signals or channels for transmission or reception to be a sufficient time corresponding to a larger subcarrier spacing."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2021, under Application No. 18/576,648.

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