US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 15 for "User equipment, base station apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,723, issued on July 15, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, base station apparatus and communication method" was invented by Daiki Takeda (Tokyo), Kazuaki Takeda (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Takayuki Isogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment including: a transmission unit that transmits a signal to a base station apparatus using a preconfigured uplink resource; a reception unit that receives a signal from the base station apparatus; and a control unit that starts or restarts a predetermined timer in response to receiving the signal from the base station apparatus."

The patent was file...