ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,110, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"User equipment 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 user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits data using a resource specified by a sidelink grant set in advance and a receiving unit that receives a sidelink grant for retransmission of the data. The transmitting unit retransmits the data based on the sidelink grant for the retransmission."
The patent was filed on April 30, 2019, under Application No. 17/606,650.
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