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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,042, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This terminal comprises: a control circuit that controls transmission power of a sidelink on the basis of information about a power control method corresponding to the purpose of usage of a communication link at a base station; and a transmission circuit that carries out sidelink transmission in accordance with the control of the transmis...