US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Jan. 27 for "Terminal, base station, communication system, and communication method to enable or disable function to transmit feedback information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,627, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, communication system, and communication method to enable or disable function to transmit feedback information" 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 that receives specific sidelink control information related to an indication that disables a function of performing Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback corresponding to a sidelink to a base station; and a control unit that performs a specific operation for the HARQ feedback in a case where th...