ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,173, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method" was invented by Takako Hori (Sakai, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai, Japan) and Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, an RRC reconfiguration message including a first configuration related to a radio bearer to which a Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) is applied, and a processing unit configured to perform configuration in accordance with the RRC rec...