ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,274, issued on June 10, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and radio communication method" 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: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that, when a reference signal for beam failure detection (BFD-RS) is not configured for the terminal, determines a reference signal of a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state associated with at least one transmission/reception point (TRP) as the BFD-RS; and a receiving section that receives t...