ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,210, issued on June 2, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo), Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Mayuko Okano (Tokyo), Masaya Okamura (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a plurality of data items in a resource autonomously selected by another communication device; a control unit configured to multiplex feedback information corresponding to each of the plurality of data items; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the multipl...