ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,040, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication system and radio communication method" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Qiping Pi (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal is disclosed including a control unit that is capable of multiplexing a first uplink control information of a first priority and a second uplink control information of a second priority in an uplink control channel; and a communication unit that transmits an uplink signal via the uplink control channel, wherein the control unit determi...