ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,334, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transmission apparatus and transmission method for transmitting a control signal in a wireless communication system" was invented by Lei Huang (Singapore), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan) and Michael Hong Cheng Sim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal fie...