US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on April 29 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,268, issued on April 29, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Huan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes a control unit configured to, when a sidelink control channel and a sidelink shared channel are to be frequency-division multiplexed, map a demodulation reference signal for the sidelink shared channel onto a symbol onto which a demodulation reference signal for the sidelink control channel is mapped; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the symbol onto which ...