ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,333, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an indication indicating an active state or an inactive state from a base station for each of one or more search space sets included in a search space set group; and a control unit configured to monitor a search space set for which the indication is an active state, and does not monitor a search space set for which the indication is an inactive state, among the search space sets included in the search space se...