US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 20 for "Terminal, base station, and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,229, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station, 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 receiver that receives schedule information for a sidelink communication; and a controller that executes at least one operation of setting a New Data Indicator (NDI) and/or a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request process number (HPN) to be included in control information for the sidelink communication based on a NDI and/or a HPN included in the schedule information, or autonomously setting an NDI and an HPN t...