US Patent Issued to Sharp on March 24 for "Non-terrestrial network user equipment downlink reception time indication with beam groups and/or beam patterns" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,240, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-terrestrial network user equipment downlink reception time indication with beam groups and/or beam patterns" was invented by Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.).

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 monitor SSBs/PBCHs (synchronization signal blocks/physical broadcast channels) and obtain system information block type 1 (SIB1) information. The receiving circuitry is further configured to receive downlink (DL) control information on a DL reception timeslo...