US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on June 17 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,998, issued on June 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan) and Tomohumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an AP, a Trigger frame generator generates a trigger signal instructing an uplink signal transmission, the trigger signal including a terminal information field that includes a terminal ID subfield and a resource unit allocation information subfield, and a radio transmitter/receiver transmits the trigger signal. In a case where...