US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 20 for "User equipments and communication methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,272, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipments and communication methods" was invented by Liqing Liu (Sakai City, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai City, Japan) and Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise control unit configured to select a RA type between a 4-step RA procedure and a 2-step RA procedure based on whether the UL BWP is further configured with RA resources used for the feature, wherein in a case that the UL BWP is configured with both a second 2-step RA type RA resources and a second 4-step RA type RA ...