ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,270, issued on April 15, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal and radio communication method" was invented by Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Lihui Wang (Beijing), Shaozhen Guo (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives information indicating a type of a codebook corresponding to each service, and a transmitting section that maps, to the codebook, delivery confirmation information for a downlink shared channel associated with each service and that transmits the codebook. Thus, feedback of an HARQ-ACK can be flexibly cont...