ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,171, issued on April 29, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"User equipment and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Huan Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment includes a control unit that selects a sidelink resource from candidate resources excluding a selected resource and a further resource within a predetermined time window and a transmitting unit that performs transmission or retransmission using the resource selected by the control unit."
The patent was filed on May 10, 2019, under Application No. 17/608,922.
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