ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,977, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, and base station" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Weiqi Sun (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that, when a trigger event related to a given panel occurs, triggers power headroom report (PHR) related to the given panel, and a transmitting section that transmits a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element related to the triggered PHR. The trigger event includes ...