US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on March 17 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,476, issued on March 17, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and communication method" 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 control unit configured to select a resource used for sidelink transmission; a transmission unit configured to report information indicating the selected resource to a base station; and a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station, information indicating approval or disapproval for using the selected resource. The transmission unit performs transmission to another terminal using the selected resour...