US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Aug. 19 for "Terminal, communication method, base station, and system for random access procedure" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,226, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, communication method, base station, and system for random access procedure" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to assume an appropriate base station beam (TCI state) during a period after an RRC reconfiguration procedure and before MAC CE activation in future radio communication systems, one aspect of a user terminal of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) after transmission...