US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Nov. 25 for "Terminal, base station, and communication method for aperiodic transmission of reference signals" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,366, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, base station, and communication method for aperiodic transmission of reference signals" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ne present invention improves reference signal transmission efficiency. A terminal is equipped with: a reception circuit for receiving information indicating some of a plurality of candidate unit-time resources for non-periodic transmission of reference signals; and a control circu...