ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,270, issued on April 29, 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), Min Liu (Beijing), Xiaolin Hou (Beijing) and Chongning Na (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is designed to determine appropriate spatial resources for uplink control channels. A user terminal has a receiving section that receives, through higher layer signaling, a plurality of entries of information related to a spatial resource for an uplink control channel, and receives specifying information that specifies, a...