ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,927, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication system, and radio communication method" was invented by Haruhi Echigo (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal transmits an uplink signal through an uplink and controls transmission timing of the uplink signal. The terminal configures different timing values for each of a plurality of uplink signals transmitted within the same cell."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2021, under Application No. 18/580,393.

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