ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,006, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio base station, and radio communication method" was invented by Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Tianyang Min (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE receives capability inquiry information of the UE from the network, and determines a candidate of the combination of frequency bands supported by the UE on the basis of the capability inquiry information. If the combination is a fallback band combination, the UE excludes the combination from a candidate list of combinations."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/802,848.

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