US Patent Issued to Sharp on Jan. 20 for "User equipments, base stations and signaling for uplink support of non-terrestrial networks" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,376, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations and signaling for uplink support of non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.), Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.), John Michael Kowalski (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) for uplink transmission with uplink support of non-terrestrial network (NTN). The DCI includes a time domain resource assignment field The UE also includes a proce...