ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,201, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication node" was invented by Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Weiqi Sun (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication node receives resource information indicating a type of resources allocated to a radio link with a lower node from a network and establishes the radio link based on the resource information. The type of resources includes a specific type that can designate availability of a frequency resource in a frequency direction. When the frequency resource is the specific typ...