US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Sept. 30 for "Communication device and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,104, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Jun Minotani (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This communication device is provided with: a reception circuit that receives information pertaining to at least one of a plurality of modes which pertain to the allocation of a common data signal to a plurality of sub-carrier groups; and a control circuit that, on the basis of the information pertai...