US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Feb. 17 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,072, issued on Feb. 17, 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 transmitting unit that transmits, on a sidelink resource, at least one of a transport block or control information; and a control unit that selects a specific operation related to feedback, to a base station, of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the sidelink resource, in response to detecting that feedback for the at least one of the transport block or the control information is not perfor...