US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on June 24 for "Terminal and communication method to implement unicast communication suitable for power saving operation in terminal-to-terminal direct communication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,218, issued on June 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method to implement unicast communication suitable for power saving operation in terminal-to-terminal direct communication" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes: a control unit configured to connect to another terminal in an RRC (Radio Resource Control) layer; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit data to the another terminal. In a case where the another terminal or the terminal itself performs at least one of transmission, recepti...