ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,234, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"User equipments and methods" was invented by Wataru Ouchi (Sakai City, Japan), Toshizo Nogami (Sakai City, Japan), Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai City, Japan), Takahisa Fukui (Sakai City, Japan), Huifa Lin (Sakai City, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai City, Japan), Ryota Morimoto (Sakai City, Japan) and Daiichiro Nakashima (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 high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire a first RRC parameter, a second RRC parameter, a third RRC parameter, and a fourth RRC parame...