ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,036, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Mobile station, base station, transmission method and reception method" was invented by Shotaro Maki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan) and Tomofumi Takata (Ishikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mobile station that can appropriately allocate resources in an unlicensed band. In the mobile station (200), on the basis of resource association between an uplink reference signal and another uplink signal different from the reference signal, a control unit (205) determines a frequency reso...