ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,462, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Terminal and communication method thereof" was invented by Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Seigo Nakao (Osaka, Japan), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan), Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan) and Atsushi Sumasu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes circuitry, which, in operation, controls transmitting downlink data to a terminal apparatus; receiving a plurality of transport blocks which are transmitted in a same time period using a same frequency band in a spatial multiplexing scheme, wherein a same acknowle...