ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,091, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal, base station and radio communication method" 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 comprising: a control unit that performs feedback control to transmit two or more acknowledgments over one physical uplink control channel, wherein the control unit performs, when the two or more acknowledgments include a first acknowledgment with a first priority and a second acknowledgment with a second priority different from the first priority, ...