ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,916, issued on April 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication apparatus and communication method" was invented by Yuichi Morioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus and a communication method for performing wireless data transmission using multiple channels are provided. The communication apparatus operating as a base station includes: a communication section that transmits and receives a wireless signal; and a control section that controls a channel used by a subordinate wireless terminal, the control section designates a first transmission scheme to a first wireless terminal ...