ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,104, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"User equipments, base stations and methods for priority rules of channel state information reports" was invented by Kai Ying (Vancouver, Wash.) and Tatsushi Aiba (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 on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) format used for scheduling of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The DCI includes a priority indicator. The UE further includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform chann...