US Patent Issued to Sharp on Jan. 20 for "Terminal devices, base station devices, and communication methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,357, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal devices, base station devices, and communication methods" was invented by Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Daiichiro Nakashima (Sakai, Japan), Toshizo Nogami (Sakai, Japan), Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan), Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan) and Takahisa Fukui (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Terminal device initiates a COT-u at the beginning of an FFP-u after the channel is sensed to be idle and transmit an uplink transmission burst within the COT-u. In a case that the COT-u overlaps with a sensing slot for initiating an FFP-g w...