ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,245, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal with which it is possible to appropriately transmit uplink control information. In a terminal (200), a reception unit (202) receives first control information relating to an uplink data channel, and a second control information relating to an uplink control channel for transmitting uplink control information...