US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Aug. 11 for "Terminal, base station, and communication method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,696, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, base station, and communication method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hongchao Li (Langen, Germany) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to downlink retransmission control. A terminal includes a control circuit that performs retransmission control for a plurality of transport blocks in units of code block groups including at least one code block, and a communication circuit that performs communication according to the retr...