ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,153, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KOKUSAI DENKI Electric Inc. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication system, transmission method and reception method" was invented by Kei Ito (Tokyo) and Tatsuhiro Nakada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention allows a gain control to be appropriately effected even when a frame including no preamble signal block is used for wireless communications. The following processes are effected in a transmission power control unit 106 of a transmission unit. Specifically, an automatic transmission gain control unit 201 multiplies a transmission signal by a gain value that is the difference ...