ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,695, issued on July 7, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method to determine transmission parameters in a wireless communication system in which the resources to be used are determined autonomously" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device has: a receiving unit configured to receive information from another communication device; a control unit configured to determine an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) based on the i...