US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 21 for "User equipment, base station, and method" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,039, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment, base station, and method" was invented by Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.), Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai City, 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 that joint reporting of uplink control information (UCI) with different priorities is configured and a multiplexing timeline is satisfied. The processor is also configured to multiplex more than two bits of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a scheduling re...