ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,788, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Radio communication node" was invented by Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo), Hiroki Harada (Tokyo), Weiqi Sun (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communication node (100B) includes a cell information acquiring unit (165) that acquires a subcarrier interval to be set and a frequency range to be used; and a control unit (170) that sets a reference additional time included in a time difference from transmission in a serving cell to reception in the radio communication node and the granularity applied to the reference additiona...