ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,499, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and radio communication method to improve the efficiency of communication by coordinating operations between the terminals" 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 disclosed terminal includes a transmitter configured to transmit information relating to resource selection to another terminal via a resource relating to a HARQ (Hybrid automatic repeat request) feedback channel; and a receiver configured to receive data from the another terminal via a resource determined based on the ...