ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,969, issued on Sept. 23, 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 reception unit that monitors an activation signal at a monitoring occasion periodically configured during DRX (Discontinuous Reception), and a control unit that determines, based on a monitoring result of the activation signal, whether or not to monitor a control signal transmitted from another terminal during DRX on-duration starting after passage of an offset period from a time point of the activation signal."
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