US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 26 for "Base station, terminal, transmission method, and reception method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,978, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal, transmission method, and reception method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a base station, control circuitry determines, based on an offset for defining a frequency position of a narrowband allocated to an MPDCCH and a resource block group size of a system band, allocations of a first EPDCCH set and a second EPDCCH set that constitute the MPDCCH. The MPDCCH is a PDCCH for MTC. The second EPDCCH set has a diff...