ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,289, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal having: a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a base station a first uplink control channel including a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) response related to a sidelink and an uplink shared channel; and a controlling unit configured to determine a process to be applied in a case where the first uplink control channel overlaps with the uplink shared channel at least in a time domain; wherein the transmitt...