ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,821, issued on June 3, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Shaozhen Guo (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 receiving section that receives information relating to an uplink signal; and a control section that uses, when medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) is indicated and the information satisfies an applicable condition, a specific spatial relation based on the MAC CE for transmitting the uplink sig...