ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,557, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, base station, and communication method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This terminal comprises: a control unit which determines, on the basis of the unit of a second symbol in which a plurality of first symbols in at least one of uplink first channel and second channel are associated with one unit, whether to transmit uplink control information on any one of the first channel and the second channel; and a transmission circuit which transmits the uplink control ...