ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,918, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a terminal, a signal allocation unit allocates uplink control information including at least one of a response signal responsive to downlink data and an uplink radio resource allocation request signal to a resource for an uplink control channel on the basis of a mode selected from among a plurality of modes relating to the channel configuration of the uplink cont...