ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,732, issued on June 10, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, base station device, control method, and storage medium for controlling the transmission of signals" was invented by Takeo Ohseki (Fujimino, Japan), Kazuhide Toda (Fujimino, Japan) and Yasuhiro Suegara (Fujimino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device selects, in a case where data that is to be transmitted to the base station device is generated, one setting for use in transmission of a scheduling request to a base station device, from among a plurality of settings that correspond to different combinations of a bandwidth, a time duration, an...