ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,576, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal and communication method" was invented by Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Xuan Tuong Tran (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal comprising a control circuit for controlling communications in units of a second symbol, each unit being associated with a plurality of first symbols, and a communication circuit for performing communications."

The patent was filed on Dec. 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/799,874.

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