ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,271, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus by using a second cell group including a PSCell considers a measurement object including first information as a first measurement object group, considers a measurement object not including the first information as a second measurement object group, and ba...