ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,777, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Transmission apparatus and transmission 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: "A transmission apparatus includes M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals directed to M reception apparatuses, M being an integer equal to or greater than 2, and an antenna section. Each signal processor modulates a first bit sequence made up of two bits to generate a first modulated signal and a second mod...