US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on March 18 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,707, issued on March 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Yuichi Kakishima (Tokyo), Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive information associated with a signal transmitted to an apparatus other than the terminal, in MU-MIMO (MultiUser-Multiple Input Multiple Output) and a reference signal from a base station, a control unit configured to estimate interference from the signal transmitted to the apparatus other than the terminal to a signal transmitted to the terminal, based on...