ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,179, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method for persistent allocation" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore) and Yanyi Ding (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for user-specific persistent allocation. A communication apparatus comprises circuitry which, in operation, generates a transmission signal comprising a common field, a user specific field and a data field, the common ...