ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,787, issued on March 31, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Mobile station and reception quality measurement method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seigo Nakao (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the disco...