ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,780, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).
"Terminal device, base station device, retransmission method, and resource allocation method" was invented by Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator generates code words by encoding data, a layer mapping unit places each CW in one or a plurality of la...