US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on April 14 for "Communication device and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,736, issued on April 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Jun Minotani (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention improves channel estimation accuracy in wireless communication. This communication device comprises: a control circuit that sets, to a control signal, information relating to an additional reference signal for each destination device; and a transmission circuit that transmits th...