ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,611, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, terminal, and communication method using indication pattern determined based on configuration regarding feedback for retransmission process" was invented by Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Nunome (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station comprises a control circuit which determines a notification pattern based on settings pertaining to feedback about a re-transmission process and sets a notification pattern in a signal for reporting the allo...