US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Feb. 17 for "Base station, communication device, and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,104, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station, communication device, and communication method" was invented by Takayuki Nakano (Ishikawa, Japan), Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Kanaya (Ishikawa, Japan) and Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This base station comprises: a control circuit that determines a format for a control signal on the basis of the type of cooperative communication; and a transmission circuit that transmits, according to the format, the control signal to another base...