ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,960, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, base station, transmission method, and reception method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating uplink signals over a plurality of subframes; controller sets a timing for transmitting the repetition signals, based on information indicating a transmission candidate subframe for a sounding reference signal used for measuring an uplink reception ...