ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,889, issued on May 6, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method for requesting channel state information" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a transmission unit that transmits a request for channel state information and one or more shared channels including a reference signal to another terminal, a control unit that configures a latency bound for a channel state report triggered by the request, and a reception unit that receives the channel state report triggered by the request, before the latency bound from the other t...