ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,438, issued on March 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and transmission method" was invented by Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo), Akihito Hanaki (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiver that receives an index specifying configuration information for transmitting a random access preamble; and a controller that configures, in response to the receiver receiving additional information that specifies a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble, the time domain resource specified by the additional information, the time domain r...