ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,614, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method" was invented by Tomoki Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, Japan), Daiichiro Nakashima (Sakai, Japan), Huifa Lin (Sakai, Japan) and Wataru Ouchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry configured to receive a DCI format used for scheduling of a PUSCH, and a transmission circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH in multiple slots. A size of a transport block is given based on a target coding rate indicated by the DCI format. The ...