ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,748, issued on May 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" 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 receiving unit that performs reception on at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels or a plurality of sidelink shared channels; a control unit that selects, upon detecting that a number of a plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted exceeds an upper limit number, the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels from among the plurality of sidelink ...