US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 1 for "User equipments, base stations and methods for indication of uplink transmission" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,125, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations and methods for indication of uplink transmission" was invented by Tatsushi Aiba (Sakai, Japan), Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.) and Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a first DCI format comprising one bit of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) indicator, the first DCI format being used for scheduling of a PUSCH. The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive a second DCI format comprising more than one bits of an U...