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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,972, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" was invented by Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo), Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Haruhi Echigo (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines, for each of a plurality of different transport blocks (TBs), the number of layers corresponding to the TB and controls association between each of the plurality of TBs and a layer; and a transmitting section that transmits, by using one or more layers, each of the plura...