ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,156, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, communication method, and base station" was invented by Yuta Oguma (Tokyo) and Ryu Kitagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives configuration information for configuring a time and frequency domain in which a transmission is stopped; a transmitting unit that transmits terminal capability information indicating that the terminal is capable of performing calibration by stopping the transmission in the time and frequency domain; and a control unit that performs the calibration by stopping the transmission in the...