ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,000, issued on May 6, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Control channel signaling for indicating the scheduling mode" was invented by Christian Wengerter (Kleinheubach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control channel signal for use in a mobile communication system providing at least two different scheduling modes. Further the invention relates to a scheduling unit for generating the control channel signal and a base station comprising the scheduling unit. The invention also relates to the operation of a mobile station and a base station for im...