ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,518, issued on March 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal that comprises: a control circuit that, in accordance with information about the size of at least one of a plurality of uplink control signals that have different degrees of priority, varies a parameter that is to be used for transmission of the plurality of uplink control signals; and a transmission circuit that transmits the plurality of uplink control si...