ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,383, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal devices, base station devices, and communication methods" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Daiichiro Nakashima (Sakai, Japan), Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan), Toshizo Nogami (Sakai, Japan) and Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The terminal device determines frequency domain resources for the PUCCH based on an intersection of resource blocks corresponding to the first interlace(s) and resource blocks in a frequency portion among first frequency portions which is defined by the guard bands, and t...