US Patent Issued to Sharp on March 24 for "User equipment (UE)" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,954, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipment (UE)" was invented by Yoko Kuge (Sakai City, Japan), Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai City, Japan), Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai City, Japan), Shuichiro Chiba (Sakai City, Japan), Masaki Izumi (Sakai City, Japan) and Masafumi Aramoto (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A User Equipment (UE) includes a controller. The controller is in automatic network selection mode, and the controller stops a Tsor-cm timer in a case that the controller switched to manual network selection mode and the Tsor-cm timer is running."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 202...