ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,849, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"SR bits generation for HARQ-ACK multiplexing with different priorities" was invented by Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.), Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, Japan) and Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine whether scheduling request (SR) reporting with hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) with different priorities is supported. The processor is also configured to generate SR bits for multiplexing HARQ-ACK, wherein the HARQ-ACK having different pri...