US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on March 25 for "Communication apparatus and communication method for hybrid automatic repeat request transmission" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,699, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method for hybrid automatic repeat request transmission" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore), Yanyi Ding (Singapore), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan) and Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus comprising: circuitry, which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a data field, the data field carrying an aggregated medium access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) that is segmented into one or more code block; and a t...