ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,839, issued on March 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"User terminal and radio communication method" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo) and Daisuke Murayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal has a control section that makes a determination of at least one of a band of monitoring for at least one of a reference signal and a downlink control channel, and operation of the monitoring, in a frequency band to which sensing of a channel is applied, based on at least one of notified configuration information and reported capability information, and a receiving section that performs the monitoring according...