ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,069, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"User equipments, and base stations" was invented by Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Daiichiro Nakashima (Sakai, Japan), Toshizo Nogami (Sakai, Japan), Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan), Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan) and Takahisa Fukui (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Terminal device initiates a COT-u at the beginning of an FFP-u after the channel is sensed to be idle. In a case that the maximum COT overlaps with an IP-g and the beginning of the IP-g is before the beginning of the IP-u, the uplink transmission is paused before or at th...