ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,147, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo), Qiping Pi (Beijing), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Lan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprises: a control unit that multiplexes two or more uplink control information having mutually different priorities on an uplink control channel; and a communication unit that transmits an uplink signal using the uplink control channel on which the two or more uplink control information are multiplexed; wherein the control unit determines a number of resource blocks related to the uplink co...