ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,024, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal, and communication method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ankit Bhamri (Rodermark, Germany) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first process (Step 4) of equalizing the sizes of control information between a first format for a first search space and a second format for a second search space and a second process (Procedure B) of equalizing the sizes of control information between a third format and the first format or the second format are car...