ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,151, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore), Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan) and Isamu Yoshii (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An communication apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a receiver that receives a Trigger frame for allocating resource units (RUs) for random access and another frame including Random Access parameter element that comprises a first field indicating an OFDMA conte...