US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 19 for "Network controlled repeater (NCR) procedures to support type 1 configured grants" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,002, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Network controlled repeater (NCR) procedures to support type 1 configured grants" was invented by Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, Wash.) and Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controlled repeater (NCR) is described. The NCR includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a gNodeB (gNB) on a control link for a configured grant (CG), including resource allocation with beam indication, and uplink (UL) forwarding delay information."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2022, under Application...