US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Oct. 27 for "Terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,852, issued on Oct. 27, 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 receiver configured to receive, from another terminal, first control information in communication between terminals. The terminal further includes a processor configured to calculate a size of a transport block to be received from the other terminal, based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index that is included in the first control information, the MCS index being other than an MCS index whose corresponding tar...