US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on April 15 for "User equipment and base station performing transmission and reception operations" (German, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,779, issued on April 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and base station performing transmission and reception operations" was invented by Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hongchao Li (Langen, Germany) and Ankit Bhamri (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a base station and respective methods. The user equipment (UE) receives a single uplink grant for a plurality of PUSCH transmissions. The single uplink grant comprises an antenna port field with an index value that is to be used for the plurali...