US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on May 19 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,043, issued on May 19, 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 receiving unit configured to receive data from another terminal, a control unit configured to set: a first parameter which determines a group hopping; or a second parameter which determines a sequence hopping, the group hopping or the sequence hopping being applied to a channel used for transmitting and receiving a response associated with a retransmission control, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the resp...