US Patent Issued to Sun Patent Trust on June 2 for "Communication apparatus and communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,219, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sun Patent Trust (New York).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Akihiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan) and Seigo Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a wireless communication base station apparatus whereby it is possible to prevent degradation of throughput of LTE terminals, even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals are present together. In this apparatus, a setting section (105) sets in each subframe a resource block in which is arranged a reference signal that is employed solely by LTE+ terminals, based on the pattern of arrangement of refer...