ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,601, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and resource control method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Naoya Shibaike (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal including: a receiving unit that acquires any one or both position information of a reception terminal and position information of a third terminal; and a control unit that performs resource exclusion processing by a specific method with respect to a reserved resource by the third terminal within a specific range from the reception terminal on the basis of the position information acquired ...