US Patent Issued to Sun Patent Trust on July 1 for "Communication apparatus and retransmission control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,318, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Communication apparatus and retransmission control method" was invented by Toru Oizumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seigo Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCC...