US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on May 6 for "Reception device, transmission device, reception method, and transmission method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,995, issued on May 6, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Reception device, transmission device, reception method, and transmission method" was invented by Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appropriate MAC Control Element (CE) operation start timing control process is realized in an NTN system. A terminal 100 comprises: a wireless reception unit 106 that receives a MAC CE and an offset value (KMAC_ACTION, etc.); and a control unit 110 that, on the basis of the offset value, sets a slot for starting an operation ...