US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 23 for "Terminal apparatus, communication method, and base station apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,372, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, communication method, and base station apparatus" was invented by Kyosuke Inoue (Sakai City, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai City, Japan), Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai City, Japan) and Takako Hori (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus configured with a first cell group and a second cell group includes a processing unit configured to trigger a PHR, and a transmitter configured to transmit the triggered PHR to a base station apparatus. The PHR is triggered by the processing unit, based on activation of the second cell gr...