ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,584, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Terminal and communication method" 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 controller configured to identify a resource that is included in a time domain in which a first channel used for transmitting a response related to retransmission control is allocated, and that is included in a frequency domain that is not used for transmitting the first channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second channel or a signal by using the resource."
The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2019, under ...