US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Nov. 18 for "Base station, terminal, transmission method, and reception method for using PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) to indicate resource assignment for PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel)" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,757, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal, transmission method, and reception method for using PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) to indicate resource assignment for PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel)" 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 resource assignment determiner determines a resource for a PDSCH intended for an MTC terminal, and a transmitter transmits an MPDCCH that includes resource assignment bits indicating the resource thus determin...