ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,342, 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 includes a receiving unit configured to receive control information from at least one of another terminal and a base station, and to receive data from the another terminal; a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the base station, a response relating to a retransmission process corresponding to the data; and a control unit configured to determine the response, based on at least one of the control information received fro...