ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,692, issued on March 11, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"User equipment" was invented by Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo) and Huan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The included are a control unit that determines a configuration for a transmission of a scheduling request based on whether the scheduling request is for a communication between a base station apparatus and the user equipment or the scheduling request is for a communication between the user equipment and another user equipment; a transmitting unit that transmits the scheduling request by using the configuration for the transmission of ...