ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,091, issued on Sept. 9, 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 including a receiving unit configured to perform sensing of resource reservation information and resource allocation information transmitted from another terminal by using a sensing window; a control unit configured to determine an available resource set, by identifying a predetermined resource in a resource selection window, based on the resource reservation information and the resource allocation information; and a transmitti...