ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,348, issued on June 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and radio communication method" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Lihui Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a parameter related to an initial value for generating a scrambling sequence applied to a specific uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)) based on whether already having a valid cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI), and a transmitting section that transm...