ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,528, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal, and communication method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart (Hessen, Germany), Lilei Wang (Beijing), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus includes circuitry that determines a number of resource blocks forming a resource block group, which is a unit used to allocate a resource to the communication apparatus, in a first band or in a second band that is ...