ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,925, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal devices and base stations devices" 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 attempts to initiate a COT-u after the channel is sensed to be idle and transmit a configured grant PUSCH. A start of a time domain resource of the configured grant PUSCH is aligned with the start of the FFP-u. In a case that the FFP-u does not ove...