ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,592, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Base station, terminal, and communication method" was invented by Tomohumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Joachim Loehr (Hessen, Germany) and Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station (100, 300) is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter (109) transmits a downlink signal in a downlink transmission region, in a time unit that includes the downlink transmission region, ...