ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,237, issued on March 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Communication apparatus and communication method for multi-AP joint transmission" was invented by Rojan Chitrakar (Singapore), Lei Huang (Singapore) and Yoshio Urabe (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) includes circuitry, which, in operation, generates a frame that includes joint transmission (JT) data and a JT identity that uniquely identifies the JT data. The access point further includes a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the frame to one or more APs that jointly transmit the...