ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,160, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Terminal, base station, and communication reference signal transmission method" was invented by Takashi Iwai (Ishikawa, Japan), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention achieves an improvement in channel estimation accuracy using a reference signal. This terminal comprises: a control circuit for setting a first upper limit value of a frequency interval at which a first reference signal is placed in a first bandwidth such that the first ...