US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on April 7 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,028, issued on April 7, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Huan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus including a transmitting unit configured to transmit an SFCI (Sidelink Feedback Control Information) including a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) response on a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH), and a control unit configured to, in a case where the PSFCH overlaps another inter-terminal direct communication channel, perform control to transmit the SFCI by multiplex...