ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,289, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Yanru Wang (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Xiaolin Hou (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a transmitter that transmits a second signal specifying a resource for an initial transmission of a first signal on a sidelink; and a controller that selects, reserves, or pre-reserves a resource for the initial transmission of the first signal on the sidelink and at least one of one or more resources for one or more retransmissions of the first signal on...