ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,362, issued on May 13, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, and communication method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal (200) is provided with a control circuit (20A) and a transmitting circuit (20B). The control circuit (20A) determines an arrangement, with respect to a side link data channel, of second control information related to first control information transmitted in the side link, on the basis of the arrangement of a reference signal in the data channel and the arrang...