ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,237, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Nunome (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, a base station can dynamically change a repetition transmission method as appropriate. In a base station (100), a repetition control unit (103) determines a data repetition pattern for a terminal (200). A transmission unit ...