US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on April 14 for "Base station, terminal and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,324, issued on April 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal and communication method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal assignment unit (105) assigns a downlink control signal including resource assignment information of a PDSCH to a downlink resource. A specification unit (108) specifies a PUCCH resource using an offset value set to either a first PRB set or a second PRB set when the downlink control signal is disposed to spread over the first PRB set and the se...