US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on March 18 for "Terminal and a radio communication method in next-generation mobile communication systems" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,336, issued on March 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and a radio communication method in next-generation mobile communication systems" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Yuichi Kakishima (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

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 a pathloss reference signal, and a control section that calculates a pathloss for transmission power control on the basis of layer 1 (L1)-reference signal received power (RSRP) for the pathloss reference signal when the pathloss reference signal...