ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,335, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method for resource reservation in vehicle to everything (V2X) communication" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a receiver that receives, from another terminal, information that is related to inter-terminal direct communication and is for identifying available resources; a controller that identifies candidate resources and selects a resource to be used, based on the information; and a transmitter that performs transmission in the inter-terminal direct communica...