ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,542, issued on May 6, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Wireless communication control device and wireless communication control method to coordinate reference signal waveforms" was invented by Takayuki Nakano (Ishikawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Kanaya (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Ryutaro Hashi (Ishikawa, Japan), Jun Minotani (Ishikawa, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This wireless communication control device is a first wireless control device provided with: a control circuit that causes the ...