ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,959, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transceiver device and scheduling device" was invented by Rikin Shah (Langen, Germany), Ming-Hung Tao (Langen, Germany), Ankit Bhamri (Langen, Germany) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a transceiver device and a scheduling device, and communication methods for transceiver device and scheduling device. The transceiver device comprises a transceiver, which, in operation, transmits a scheduling request for scheduling data over a physical uplink control cha...