ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,977, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, radio communication method, base station, and system that enable ul transmissions for which the priority setting is supported to be appropriately controlled" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Jing Wang (Beijing), Lan Chen (Beijing), Jialin Wu (Beijing) and Yong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that, in a case where a first uplink channel and a plurality of second uplink channels having a lower priority than the first uplink channel a...