ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,002, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Communication apparatus and reference signal receiving method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan), Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaru Fukuoka (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the termin...