ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,803, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal for multibeam control" was invented by Takuma Takada (Tokyo), Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hiromasa Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE receives a radio signal via a receive beam. The UE controls the receive beam in a first state or in a second state where control of the receive beam is different from that of the first state. The UE directs at least one receive beam to a serving cell and directs another receive beam to a direction different from the serving cell in a case of controlling the receive beam in the second state and executing configu...