US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on May 5 for "Base station and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,195, issued on May 5, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Base station and communication method" was invented by Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station includes: an allocating circuit that allocates, to a resource set which is monitored by a terminal belonging to a group, a first control signal which contains information indicating the configuration of a slot and a second control signal which does not contain the information indicating the configuration of a slot; and a transmitter that transmits the fir...