US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on March 4 for "User terminal and radio communication method" (Japanese, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,527, issued on March 4, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User terminal and radio communication method" was invented by Kazuaki Takeda (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Chongning Na (Beijing) and Yuichi Kakishima (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is designed to enable quick beam recovery. A user terminal according to the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that controls a beam that is used to transmit and/or receive the DL signal, and the control section controls transmission of an uplink (UL) signal that requests switching ...