US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Sept. 8 for "Terminal, and base station" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,003, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, and base station" was invented by Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Hiroki Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a control unit configured to determine a number of resource blocks to be used in a second uplink control channel that is used before a terminal-dedicated resource for a first uplink control channel is configured as a value greater than one; and a transmission unit configured to perform transmission by the second uplink control channel using the number of resource blocks."

The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 20...