US Patent Issued to Sharp on Jan. 13 for "Terminal apparatus, method, and integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,865, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, method, and integrated circuit" was invented by Takuma Kawano (Sakai, Japan), Shohei Yamada (Sakai, Japan), Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai, Japan), Kyosuke Inoue (Sakai, Japan) and Taichi Miyake (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus by using a direct path and an indirect path determines whether a signaling radio bearer is configured on an indirect path in a case that radio link failure is detected on the direct path, and transmits information indicating that the radio link failure...