ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,696, issued on July 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Mobile station, base station, transmission method and receiving method" was invented by Shotaro Maki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yihui Li (Singapore) and Madhav Gupta (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an operation in a license-exempt band (unlicensed band), the present invention contributes to the provision of a mobile station, a base station, a transmission method and a receiving method which suitably transmit and...