US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on April 22 for "Wireless communication devices, network connection nodes, systems and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,545, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication devices, network connection nodes, systems and methods" was invented by Shinichiro Tsuda (Hampshire, Great Britain), Yuxin Wei (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Hideji Wakabayashi (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device comprising circuitry that is configured to measure, in an idle mode, only macro cells, and to start the measurement of one or more indirect network connection nodes in accordance with the wireless communication device turning into a connected mode."

The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 20...