ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,463, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Multiple access point uplink orthogonal frequency-division multiple access based random access" was invented by Li-Hsiang Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.), Liangxiao Xin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Qing Xia (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for supporting simultaneous MultiUser (MU) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) operations utilizing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) with Uplink OFDMA Random Access (UORA). Access Points (APs) trigger an...