US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on March 11 for "Terminal and communication method that determine a spatial reception parameter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,048, issued on March 11, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method that determine a spatial reception parameter" was invented by Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo) and Yuuki Matsumura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a control unit that determines a spatial reception parameter of a control channel based on Quasi-co-location (QCL) information on a synchronization signal or a reference signal; and a receiving unit that receives the control channel based on the determined spatial reception parameter, wherein, when Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) is performed by applyi...