US Patent Issued to Panasonic Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Terminal apparatus and sequence assigning method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,298, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus and sequence assigning method" was invented by Yoshihiko Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan), Sadaki Futagi (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, RxM sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m ...