ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,876, issued on April 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Terminal, base station, transmitting method, and receiving method" was invented by Tomoya Nunome (Ishikawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan) and Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal capable of improving utilization efficiency of an uplink resource in an unlicensed band. In a terminal (200), a transmission control unit (206) sets, in accordance with at least one of a data size and retransmission of uplink data, a first end position...