ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,614, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method" was invented by Seigo Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daichi Imamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code "1" or "e-j(Pi/2)" so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyc...