ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,500, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User equipment and control method" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a message in a random access procedure by using a preamble resource and a PUSCH resource, and a control unit configured to start a time window for monitoring a random access response after a resource that is one of the preamble resource and the PUSCH resource whichever ends later in time domain."

The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2019, under Application No. 17/429,209.

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