US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Feb. 18 for "Communication device and communication method" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,191, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore), Hiroyuki Motozuka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takenori Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a communication method of the present disclosure, a responder, after the end of transmission sector sweep (TXSS), receives from an initiator a first feedback frame including a BF training type FIELD indicating whether or not to implement a beam forming training (BFT) of a single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO)....