ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,126, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Lilei Wang (Beijing), Kazuki Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart (Hessen, Germany), Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure aims at allowing a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern suitable for a terminal to be selected from among a plurality of DMRS patterns including Legacy DMRS and Reduced DMRS. Disclosed is a ter...