US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 15 for "Communications network and methods with enhanced duplex" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,842, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Communications network and methods with enhanced duplex" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.) and Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless terminal communicates across a radio interface with a radio access network. The wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a downlink signal from the radio access network. The processor circuitry is configured to determine a resource assignment (mapping) of the downlink signal to a resource grid of time/fr...