ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,327, issued on April 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication device and communication method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan), Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan), Takayuki Nakano (Ishikawa, Japan) and Taichi Miura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device (100) comprises: a circuit (11) that sets a first value to an association ID (AID) 12 subfield of the first field of a trigger frame requesting an extremely high throughput (EHT) trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU); and...