US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Nov. 18 for "Terminal, base station and communication method" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,527, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station and communication method" was invented by Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Qiping Pi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive a block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel, a control channel carrying control information, and a shared channel carrying system information by applying single beamforming; and a control unit configured to perform an initial access, based on the system information. The block and one...