US Patent Issued to NTT on March 17 for "Radio communication method, radio communication system, radio base station, and repeater" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,465, issued on March 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication method, radio communication system, radio base station, and repeater" was invented by Masashi Iwabuchi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoki Murakami (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio base station and a radio terminal perform radio communication based on a TDD scheme. A slot configuration includes allocation of a downlink period and an uplink period to the radio terminal. The relay reflects a signal transmitted from the radio base station or the radio terminal or receives and reradiates the signal to form ...