ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,853, issued on May 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and transmission method" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo), Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo), Akihito Hanaki (Tokyo) and Hiroki Harada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiver that receives an index that specifies configuration information for transmitting a random access preamble; and a controller that configures, when the receiver receives additional information that specifies a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble and the index falls within a specific numerical range, the time domain resource specified by t...