ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,226, issued on June 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a configuration on dormancy of one or more secondary cells from a base station through higher layer signaling, and that receives control information including a notification related to dormancy through a physical layer; and a control unit that transitions a secondary cell group configured by the configuration to a dormant state or a non-dormant state on a per secondary cell group basis, based on a specific field inclu...