US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS on June 17 for "Communications device which communicates with infrastructure equipment in an inactive state" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,016, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Communications device which communicates with infrastructure equipment in an inactive state" was invented by Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden), Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications device that, when in an inactive state, transmits a first signal comprising a random access preamble and a first portion of data to infrastructure equipmen...