ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,859, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Communication device and communication method" 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 control unit configured to determine a coding-related parameter to apply to a data signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the determined coding-related parameter, and the data signal to which the coding-related parameter is applied, in autonomously selected resources, to another communicati...