ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,509, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmitting device, receiving device, transmitting method and receiving method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Quan Kuang (Langen, Germany) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal which appropriately transmits and receives signals when operating in an unlicensed band. A terminal (200) is provided with: a mapping unit (207) for allocating a signal to a resource on the basis of control information indicating allocation...