ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,688, issued on March 25, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal" was invented by Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Shaozhen Guo (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal receives a radio frame having a second slot pattern to be used in a case in which a modulation system (FTN) different from a modulation system in a case of using a first slot pattern is applied. The terminal applies for the second slot pattern a configuration of an uplink and a downlink according to a time division duplex in the radio frame by using a reference subcarrier spacing same a...