ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,897, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations and signaling for downlink semi-persistent scheduling of non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.) and Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, 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 receive signaling that includes a configuration for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive signaling that comprises first information t...