ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,025, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method and device to improve reception/transmission reliability, and provide communication flexibility and efficiency" was invented by Liqing Liu (Sakai City, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai City, Japan), Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai City, Japan) and Meng Cheng (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment includes reception circuitry configured to receive, from a base station, a PDCCH with a first DCI format, wherein the first DCI format schedules a PUSCH transmission; and control circuitry configured to perform the PUSCH transmission, in a case in...