ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,714, issued on May 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, system, and communication method for transmission power control for a sidelink reference signal" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Yanru Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal includes a control unit that sets, when data transmitted on a sidelink shared channel is frequency division multiplexed with a sidelink reference signal in a symbol to which the sidelink shared channel is mapped, a first value of Alpha transmit power for transmitting the reference signal to a same value as or a different value from a sec...