ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,554, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Communication device and communication method that support D2D communication" was invented by Huiting Cheng (Yokohama, Japan), Jianming Wu (Kawasaki, Japan), Hongyang Chen (Kawasaki, Japan) and Michiharu Nakamura (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device that supports D2D (Device-to-Device) communication includes a processor configured to determine a sensing section for performing sensing based on a position of a first slot in a candidate selection slot set and information regarding a transmission of an aperiodic traffic, the sensing s...