US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 2 for "User equipments, base stations, and methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,148, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations, and methods" 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 method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a random access response (RAR), wherein the RAR contains a RAR uplink (UL) grant scheduling a PUSCH transmission; and determining, for the PUSCH transmission, a frequency hopping mode from two frequency hopping modes, intra-slot frequency h...