ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,371, issued on June 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment and wireless communication method" was invented by Li Wang (Beijing), Lilei Wang (Beijing), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Hoshino (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a user equipment and a wireless communication method for LAA. The user equipment comprises: a receiver operative to receive a UL grant which schedules a subframe for UL transmission; a first circuit operative to perform LBT; a transmitter operative to transmit a PUSCH in the scheduled subframe starting ...