ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,650, issued on July 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Kimura (Osaka, Japan) and Mikihiro Ouchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals for M reception apparatuses (where M is an integer equal to 2 or greater), a multiplexing signal processor, and N antenna sections (where N is an integer equal to 1 or greater). When transmitting multiple streams, each of the M signal processors generat...