ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,238, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmission device and transmission method" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Kimura (Osaka, Japan), Mikihiro Ouchi (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Motozuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into a first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of ixtriangleLambda to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is gr...